HANOI, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is to hold regular open talks with foreign investors to accelerate foreign director investment disbursement, the Vietnam Investment Review reported here Monday.

    Phan Huu Thang, chief of the MPI Foreign Investment Agency said the need for opening regular dialogues came from a substantial gap between Vietnam's foreign director investment (FDI) and actual disbursement.

    MPI figures show that FDI disbursement made up between 50 and 80 percent to the nation's newly registered capital in the 2000-2005 period. However, the ratio is 4 billion out of 12 billion in 2006, while 4.6 billion out of 21.6 billion in 2007.

    For two and a half years, the growth in newly registered FDI has been much faster than that of disbursed capital, said Thang. We would prefer that the latter soar robustly.

    Thang said the ministry was drawing up plans for the first dialogue in a couple of months.