International Cooperation

As many as 13 Vietnamese trainees and 15 international trainees on April 16th joined the United Nations Logistics Officer’s Course which was jointly held by the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Canada.

In June, Vietnam will participate in the vote for non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council term 2020 – 2021. Le Hoai Trung, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, talks about the role of Vietnam and the significance of Vietnam becoming a non-permanent member of the UNSC on Investment newspaper.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with the Executive Board of the Union of Vietnamese Associations in Europe (UVAE) in Prague on April 16th as part of his visit to the Czech Republic.

The Ho Chi Minh city Union of Friendship Organisations and the city’s Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association held a celebration to mark the 58th anniversary of Cuba’s Giron victory (April 19th, 1961-2019).

President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) Nguyen Phuong Nga on April 16th conferred the Order of Friendship of the Vietnamese State President to Ms Susan Marie Hammond, an American, the founder and program director of the War Legacies Project in Vietnam.

Vietnam and Romania are each other’s important partner as said a joint statement issued at the end of the official visit to Romania from April 14th-16th made by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the invitation of Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived at the Vaclav Havel international airport in Prague, the Czech Republic, in the afternoon of April 16th, beginning an official visit to the country at the invitation of his Czech counterpart Andrej Babis.

In an interview granted for Investment newspaper after his official visit to Vietnam on April 9th, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte stressed that the cooperation between his country and Vietnam in trade, investment and energy continued to have a lot of potential.

Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong and his Romanian counterpart Petre Dachau on April 15th signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in agricultural, veterinary and food safety areas.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Argentina Dang Xuan Dung paid a working visit to Uruguay from April 9th-12th to discuss bilateral cooperation programmes between the two countries in 2019.

A Vietnamese art delegation has visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and joined in art activities in the country from April 11th-16th at the invitation of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) Central Committee.

There is great potential for cooperation between Prahova and Vietnamese provinces, particularly in fields of the Romanian locality’s strength, such as tourism, education-training, oil and gas, agriculture and forestry, which are in line with the priorities in Vietnam’s cooperation with Romania.

Vietnam and the US reiterated their commitments to deepening cooperation in energy security during their second energy security dialogue in Washington D.C on April 12th.

The Vietnamese Association in the Republic of Korea (RoK) convened a congress in Seoul on April 13th to review its performance during the 2017-2019 tenure and set forth operation orientations for the new term.

The official visit to Romania by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his spouse will reiterate Vietnam’s consistent foreign policy of treasuring deepening the traditional friendship and cooperation with the European country in a more practical and efficient manner, Ambassador of Vietnam to Romania Dang Tran Phong has said.

Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Economy Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansoori will co-chair the upcoming fourth meeting of the Vietnam-UAE Intergovernmental Committee in Abu Dhabi on April 18th.

A get-together was held in University of Education under Thai Nguyen University on April 12th to celebrate the traditional New Year of Laos – Bunpimay.

Nguyen Thien Nhan, Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh city Party Committee, has expressed his hope to cooperate with Germany’s Thuringen State in raising the quality of vocational training and increasing tertiary education to international standard.

Vietnam is one of Romania’s important traditional partners in Southeast Asia. The two sides are conducting diverse cooperative projects at present and in the future.

The Lao Embassy in Hanoi held a celebration of the Lao traditional New Year festival Bunpimay on April 11th.

The Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee on April 10th held a feast for 500 Lao and Cambodian students who are studying in the city, to welcome Laos’ Bunpimay traditional festival and Cambodia’s Chol Chnam Thmay traditional festival.

Some 53 delegations from Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) members’ customs agencies, the ASEAN Secretariat and the European Union, with some 180 delegates will attend the 13th ASEM Customs Directors-General and Commissioners Meeting, held by the General Department of Vietnam Customs (GDVC) in October in Quang Ninh province.

Tran Luu Quang, Party Central Committee member and Standing Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh city Party Committee, on April 9th led a delegation from the city Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Fatherland Front to celebrate Laos’ Bunpimay traditional New Year Festival at the Lao Consulate General in the city.

Vietnam and the Netherlands have issued a joint statement on the official visit to Vietnam by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on April 9th at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte agreed to upgrade Vietnam-Netherlands ties to the comprehensive partnership level during their talks in Hanoi on April 9th, the same day that their diplomatic ties were established 46 years ago.

A delegation from Vietnam’s Phu Yen province led by Huynh Tan Viet, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, recently worked with Hungary’s Hajdú-Bihar on boosting cooperation in socio-economic development, including cooperation in hot mineral spring development.

The Kien Giang University on April 8th signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperating in training and research with Phnom Penh Royal University and Chea Sim Kamchaymear University in Cambodia.

Vietnam and the Netherlands are expected to announce the elevation of bilateral ties to a comprehensive partnership during an official visit to Vietnam on April 9th by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

Vietnam will continue to consider the participation in Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) activities an important task to promote and protect its legitimate interests, thus helping increase its position in the international area, according to National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Ardeshir Larijani on April 8th on the sidelines of the 140th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Doha, Qatar.