(VOVworld) - On Wednesday, Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Chairman Le Hoang Quan received a delegation from Moscow led by Governor Andrey Vorobiev, currently on a visit to Vietnam to seek future cooperation with Ho Chi Minh City.

President Truong Tan Sang witnessed the signing ceremony of a cooperative agreement between Moscow and Ho Chi Minh city on May 10 (Photo: VNA)

Mr. Quan highlighted the delegation’s working visit as a contribution to augmenting cooperative relations between Ho Chi Minh City and Moscow. Regarding future cooperation plans, Quan said as many as 40 Vietnamese businesses are to participate at a fair in Moscow, adding that his city has set up a working group to direct cooperation measures to facilitate investments from both sides. For his part, Andrey Vorobiev said the purpose of the visit was to increase mutual understanding between the two localities and make fact-finding tours of some industrial and export processing zones in HCM City in order to learn more about economic activities and experience in foreign investment attraction.