Hanoi (VNA), March 28 -- Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on March 27 stressed the Vietnamese Government's determination to speed up the disbursement of official development assistance (ODA) and concessional loans.

He made the remarks while chairing a Hanoi meeting of the national steering committee on the capital.

The event also saw the presence of representatives of the World Bank ( WB ), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Export - Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM), the French Development Agency (AFD), and the KfW Development Bank of Germany.

Quang appreciated the development partners' capital for Vietnam, describing this as critical to the country's socio-economic and infrastructu...