Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made the statement during a meeting with World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Pascal Lamy in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 25.
He said an early end to negotiations will open up opportunities for trade development, including increasing the ability to penetrate markets and reduce trade subsidies.
Mr Dung affirmed that Vietnam has gradually fulfilled its commitments to the WTO since it joined the world’s largest trade body three years ago, marking its positive contributions to international trade.
He expressed his hope that Pascal Lamy will continue to support Vietnam in fully taking part in WTO agreements and the country in being exempted from implementing new Doha commitments.
Pascal Lamy praised Vietnam’s development achievements, especially in economic growth, trade, foreign investment attraction and tourism, after joining the WTO. He acknowledged the country’s efforts to achieve a positive GDP growth in 2009 despite the global financial and economic turmoil.
He voiced the WTO’s willingness to help Vietnam draw up a specific roadmap for its global economic integration and asked the country to finalise its legal system to meet WTO regulations.
He said the success of the Doha round will help stimulate the world economy and accelerate the global financial reform in the post-crisis period. He hoped Vietnam and other ASEAN countries would play an active role in bringing the Doha round to completion as scheduled.
Later the same day, Mr Dung met with leaders of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and other organisations.