The forum, attended by Deputy-Prime Minister, Hoang Trung Hai, and Israeli President Peres, attracted the participation of 150 Vietnamese businesses and 60 leading businesses from Israel operating in fields of national defense industry, information technology, communication, water, healthcare, food-processing and fashion, all of whom came to Vietnam to seek cooperation opportunities with Vietnamese businesses.
At the forum, the Israeli President highly appreciated the relations between Vietnam and Israel over the past years and believed in its future further development. The Israeli President stressed that a country alone can not cope with problems such as the global economic crisis and climate change and that it should join hands with other countries.

For his part, the Deputy-Prime Minister praised Israel’s dramatic economic development and pointed out Vietnam’s shortcomings in economic development and hoped that the cooperation among businesses from the two countries will promote the management abilities of the Vietnamese side and the application of high technology in Vietnam.

Also on the occasion, VCCI and the Federation of Israel Economic Organisations and the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce signed a Memorandum of Understanding, marking a new step of development in the cooperation between Vietnamese and Israeli businesses.