(VOVworld)- Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Wednesday held talks with his French counterpart Jean Marc Ayrault on ways to boost the strategic partnership. Earlier, the Prime Minister held a dialogue with leading French businesses. In his address, Dung said that Vietnam was confident of becoming an important economic partner to France and could serve as a bridge for French businesses hoping to boost economic relations in East Asia. Attending the event, many French investors expressed their hope that Vietnam would further improve its environment climate and facilitate them in doing business in Vietnam. Jacques De Chatevieu is President of the Bourbon Group: “The upgrading of Vietnamese-French relationship to strategic partnership shows that the French government support us in doing business in Vietnam. We are very interested in the Vietnamese infrastructure, and labor force, who are very good in production, management and research. Over the last 20 years, we have been a vanguard in several areas and our success has been attributed to the trust and support of the Vietnamese authorities”