THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No. 100/2004/QD-TTg
Hanoi, June 2, 2004
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE SCHEME ON ESTABLISHMENT AND STRENGTHENING OF VIETNAM'S FOREIGN-BASED TRADE OFFICES IN THE 2004-2005 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the December 2, 1993 Ordinance on Representation Offices of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in foreign countries;
At the proposal of the Trade Minister,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the Scheme on Establishment and Strengthening of Vietnam's Foreign-Based Trade Offices in the 2004-2005 period with the following principal contents:
1. The Scheme's objectives:
To establish and strengthen Vietnam's trade offices overseas in the 2004-2005 period in order to step by step perfect the system of Vietnamese trade offices overseas, to boost trade-economic relations, expand markets, satisfy the requirements of Vietnam's economic integration and development in the region and the world, aiming to achieve the export turnover growth targets set in the scheme on development of goods export market in the 2004-2005 period, already approved by the Prime Minister in Decision No. 266/2003/QD-TTg of December 17, 2003 and the Strategy on goods and service export- import development in the 2001-2010 period.
2. The Scheme's principal contents:
a) To reorganize and strengthen the existing trade offices.
b) To establish Vietnam's new trade offices in the following foreign countries and territory: Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belarus, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Pakistan, Morocco, Nigeria, Lebanon, Hong Kong (China), New Zealand.
Each newly-established trade office shall be staffed with 2 members.