International Cooperation

Vice Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Thi Thang highly appreciated International Finance Corporation (IFC)'s support for Vietnam in particular and Ho Chi Minh City in general, especially in optimizing investment capital and supporting infrastructure development.

Vietnam had reached agreement on the mutual recognition of “vaccine passports” with 19 countries as of April 7, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It is expected that in 2022, Can Tho will create favorable conditions for airlines to connect routes from Can Tho to Japan’s Tokyo and Osaka to promote relations and economic development cooperation with Japan.

At the 2nd session of the Political Affairs Sub-Committee, Vietnam and the EU discussed the outstanding situations in Vietnam and the European region in recent times as well as some important policy orientations on political issues, socio-economic development and international cooperation of the two sides.

Ho Chi Minh City's leader has expressed his thanks to Argentina for their heartfelt affections for Vietnam, adding that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the two countries supported each other, in which Argentina supported Vietnam with 500,000 doses of vaccines.

Deputy Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People's Council Nguyen Van Dung on April 12 received Ambassador of the Republic of Argentina to Vietnam Luis Pablo María Beltramino to greet him on the occasion of receiving his working term in Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received visiting Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly in Hanoi on April 13, asking his guest to help enhance the two countries’ cooperation in different aspects.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and his Canadian counterpart Mélanie Joly discussed measures to further deepen the Vietnam-Canada partnership during talks in Hanoi on April 13.

Vietnam’s honorary consulate office in Japan’s Mie prefecture officially came into operation on April 9, with Moriyuki Taniguchi, a Japanese national, as its head.

Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly is travelling to Indonesia and Vietnam from April 9 to 14 to expand partnerships and reiterate the country’s commitment to engagement with nations throughout the region as part of the government’s forthcoming Canadian Indo-Pacific Strategy.

Ambassador Nguyen Hai Bang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to ASEAN, has attended the 12th meeting of the ASEAN-Australia Joint Cooperation Committee, an annual meeting to evaluate the implementation of cooperation activities and programmes within the framework of the two sides’ comprehensive strategic partnership.

The US wants to join hands with Can Tho to practically and feasibly reduce climate change impacts, said US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper when visiting the Mekong Delta city on April 8.

At a reception for the new Vietnamese Ambassador Vu Quang Minh after a ceremony to receive the ambassador's letter of credentials, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on April 7 appreciated the good development of the Vietnam-Germany strategic partnership over the past decade.

Mr. Phan Van Mai, member of the Party Central Committee, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and Chairman of the Municipal People's Committee on April 6 received Ms. Ariadne Feo Labrada, newly-appointed Consul General of the Republic of Cuba to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).

Ho Chi Minh City wishes to promote cooperation with the UK in the fields of trade, investment, tourism, human resource training, research, technology transfer, and experience sharing in health and education.

Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung hopes that the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos will play an important role as a bridge between the two countries.

Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies (65th tenure) on April 6 debuted the Mexico-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Group in the new term.

On April 5, the high-ranking delegation from Hanoi City visited the Lao Academy of Finance - Accounting, a project funded by the Government of Vietnam and built on the basis of the proposal of the Ministry of Finance when Dinh Tien Dung held the position of head of the ministry.

Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Tra, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), re-affirmed Vietnam's consistent stance on supporting all efforts towards nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation at the annual meeting of the UN Disarmament Commission (UNDC) opened in New York on April 5.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son held talks with his Panamanian counterpart Érika Mouynes in Hanoi on April 5 to discuss ways to strengthen partnership between the two countries across all fields including politics, diplomacy, economy, trade and agriculture as well as bilateral coordination at international and multilateral forums.

The signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in vocational education between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland took place in Hanoi on the morning of April 5.

​On April 4, the delegation of Hanoi city led by Mr. Dinh Tien Dung, Politburo member and Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, paid courtesy calls to General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith, Prime Minister Phankham Viphavan, and President of the Lao National Assembly Xaysomphone Phomvihane.

Vietnam values and wishes to deepen the relationship with the UK in such fields as climate change, energy transformation, digital transformation, sustainable development, technology, finance and human resource training.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Slovakia Nguyen Tuan on April 1 received a delegation of the Slovak National Council, led by Chairman of its Economic Affairs Committee Peter Kremsky, to discuss economic cooperation between the two countries in the time to come.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Andorra Dinh Toan Thang presented his credentials to the Co-Prince of Andorra, Archbishop Joan-Enric Vives i Sicília, at the Episcopal Palace in La Seu d’Urgell, Spain, on April 1.

Sound friendship and cooperation at all levels between Vietnam and Germany will be the foundation for their effective energy collaboration in the future, stated Patrick Graichen, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action at the first Vietnam - Germany Energy Day in Berlin on March 31.

A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand led by Ambassador Phan Chi Thanh on March 30-31 visited in Ratchaburi and Kanchanaburi provinces to foster tourism cooperation and twinning between them and Vietnamese localities.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said he hoped Vietnam and Egypt will actively maintain the friendly and cooperative relations when he received the letter of credentials presented by newly-appointed Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Huy Dung in Cairo on March 31.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Home Affairs and the French Ministry of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service on March 31 signed a cooperation agreement in the field of public services and administrative modernisation.

Appreciating the friendly and cooperative relationship between Vietnam and Australia over the years, including in the fields of investment and trade, Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen said that there remains a lot of potential for cooperation between the two sides.