Vietinbank Chairman Pham Huy Hung said that while receiving Qatar’s Acting Minister of Business and Trade Khalid Bin Mohamed Al-Attiyah in Hanoi on March 15.

This is a step to implement the agreements signed between Vietinbank and several Qatari banks during Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s visit in March 2009.

The Qatari minister said he hopes such a joint venture between Vietinbank and Qatar will be established soon.

Minister Al-Attiyah said that the two sides should step up cooperation in money e-transfer to serve more than 10,000 Vietnamese guest workers in Qatar and those working in other Middle East countries.