Meeting with the Vietnamese business community in Hanoi on July 4 as part of his Vietnam visit, US Ambassador Kurt Tong, Senior Official for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), said that as host country of APEC Conference 2011, the US has been implementing numerous activities to boost regional cooperation.

While introducing US objectives and policies towards APEC regional economic integration, Kurt Tong stressed that the APEC economy is always highly placed among US interests as APEC members account for over 50 percent of global economic output, 50 percent of global trade value and 40 percent of the world’s population.

APEC is home to nine out of Vietnam’s top ten trade partners and six out of the ten leading trade partners of the US, he added.

On the occasion, the US Ambassador exchanged views on the APEC cooperation programme, US viewpoints on an Asia-Pacific free trade area, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as well as APEC trade and investment liberalization and facilitation.

VNA