the ministry of planning and investment , in conjunction with the swedish embassy in vietnam , held a ceremony in hanoi yesterday to celebrate 46 years of successful development co-operation between vietnam and sweden .addressing the event Deputy minister of planning and investment NTP thanked the swedish government and people for their enthusiastic support of vietnam from its past struggle for liberation to today's national construction and development .sweden was the first western country to fund and maintain official development assistance (ODA) for vietnam in 1967 . the country has so far provided vietnam with more than US $3,4 billion in non-refundable aid through the swedish international development co-operation agency ( SIDA) .swedish ambassador camilla mellander emphasised that over the past 46 years , sweden had helped vietnam in poverty reduction as well as its development into a middle-income nation , with assistance mostly in agriculture , industry , forestry , economic reform , judiciary health , education and gender equality.she said sweden's bilateral development co-operation programme in vietnam would end in late 2013 . however, she affirmed that her country pledges to country contributing to vietnam's progress through regional , international and multilateral programmes
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