Auckland (VNA) – National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong DinhHue received leaders of New Zealand companies in Auckland on December 4 as partof his ongoing official visit to the country.

Hosting Mike Cronin, Managing Director of Co-operativeAffairs at Fonterra, Hue lauded the group’s joint works with Vietnamese firmssuch as Vinamilk and Nutifood in the supply and distribution of milk in Vietnam’smarket.

Fonterra has been operating in Vietnam since 1980, specialisingin supplying and distributing dairy and food products for restaurant and hotelchains.

The NA leader suggested the group study to expand cooperation and investment inVietnam. Fonterra can consider invest in dairy farms, milk processing plants toprovide quality materials; as well as cooperate in management training,technology transfer, and investment in seed, products and equipment forVietnamese farms and partners, Hue said.

He informed Cronin that Vietnam is continuing to improve thelegal system, creating best conditions possible for investors and ensuring faircompetition.

In response, Cronin appreciated Vietnam's increasinglysubstantive and effective investment attraction policies over the past time.

He said he would work with the group's leaders to study Hue’ssuggestions on expanding cooperation and investment, especially regarding theopening of a network of distributors.

At his meeting with Fiso Investment Group CEO John Fiso and Directorof Viet River Holdings Limited Nguyen Truong Khoa, the top legislator welcomedbusinesses that have joined many networking activities between Vietnamese andNew Zealand firms and directly invested in Vietnam.

He said two key forums on education andtrade-economy-investment collaboration scheduled as part of his visit are anopportunity for entrepreneurs and investors of the nations to beef up theirties in the time to come.

Fisosaid currently his group is boosting investment again after the COVID-19pandemic, focusing on the fields of healthcare, education and importing Vietnameseproducts. Fiso Investment is also promoting investment activities to build highschools and vocational facilities in Vietnam, form labour cooperation, andsupport Vietnamese businesses to invest in New Zealand.

Khoa said that Viet River Holdings is promoting the importof Vietnamese pepper and coffee products to New Zealand, and wishes tobring Vietnamese workers to work in the market.

Hue recommended the businesses to propose to the New ZealandGovernment, so that the two governments will soon sign an agreement on labourcooperation, creating a solid legal framework for this field.

On the day, NA Chairman Hue also hosted Don Ha, CEO ofRE/MAX, which is one of the major US real estate companies operating through thefranchise system and is currently present in more than 110 countries andterritories. The RE/MAX New Zealand was established in 1996.

At the meeting, Hue expressed his support for the company’s planto import products of Vietnamese origin serving the opening of a sales centre and supermarket of household appliances in New Zealand.

Meanwhile, received by the NA leader on December 4, VietTechNZ'srepresentative made proposals on connecting Vietnamese and New Zealand companiesand their IT personnel. VietTechNZ works to link Vietnamese knowledge networksoperating in the field of technology in New Zealand.

Taking into account these proposals, Hue affirmed that theVietnamese Party, State and NA always support and create favourable conditions for the overseasVietnamese community./.