General Secretary, President To Lam urges Amazon to expand investment and business in Vietnam
WVR - On the afternoon of May 22, at the Party Central Committee Headquarters, General Secretary, President To Lam received Mr. David Zapolsky, Senior Vice President and Chief Global Affairs and Legal Officer at Amazon.
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| General Secretary, President To Lam and Mr. David Zapolsky, Senior Vice President and Chief Global Affairs and Legal Officer at Amazon. (Photo: VNA) |
General Secretary, President To Lam welcomed the visit to Vietnam by Amazon's leadership, congratulated the corporation on its recent successes, and highly appreciated Amazon's investment and business results in Vietnam over the years, which have positively contributed to Vietnam's development as well as Vietnam-U.S. relations. The General Secretary, President affirmed that Vietnam considers the United States one of its most important partners and hopes that the cooperation between the two countries will continue to develop in line with the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, where economic, trade, and investment cooperation remains the main driving force, and science and technology cooperation is a new breakthrough in the relationship.
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| The General Secretary, President affirmed that Vietnam values and is ready to create favourable conditions for U.S. high-tech corporations to invest and do business in Vietnam. (Photo: VNA) |
The top leader noted that Vietnam is accelerating the push for a transparent legal framework, underscoring the importance of intellectual property protection and creating favourable conditions for investment and trade by hi-tech firms, in the spirit of fostering development linked to a growth model driven by sci-tech.
He suggested Amazon further leverage its strengths and positive track record in Vietnam and continue serving as an important partner in following the Politburo’s Resolution 57 on breakthroughs in sci-tech, innovation and digital transformation, making practical contributions to data infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and quality workforce training in Vietnam.
Amazon's Vice President Zapolsky, in reply, affirmed that Vietnam has the potential to become a leading technology nation in the region, with broad cooperation opportunities in areas of Amazon’s strength, including cloud computing, AI and big data.
On this occasion, Zapolsky expressed sincere thanks to the Vietnamese Party and State leaders for their support of Amazon’s operations over the past decade, voicing his confidence in Vietnam’s development potential and its clear strategic goals and policy directions.
He committed to long-term investment and readiness to partner with the country in building digital infrastructure and training its workforce, thereby contributing to Vietnam’s socio-economic development targets.
