Cooperation between HCM City, Hungarian partners strengthened
Permanent Vice Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Chairman of the municipal People's Committee Phan Van Mai on February 22 received Szojka Éva Szilvia, Consul General of Hungary in Ho Chi Minh City, who came to bid farewell at the end of her tenure in Vietnam.
Permanent Vice Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Chairman of the municipal People's Committee Phan Van Mai (third, from right) on February 22 receives Szojka Éva Szilvia, Consul General of Hungary in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: hcmcpv.org.vn)
Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) – Permanent ViceSecretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Chairman of the municipalPeople's Committee Phan Van Mai on February 22 received Szojꦍka Éva Szilvia,Consul General of Hungary in Ho Chi Minh City, who came to bid farewell at theend of her tenure in Vietnam.
Mai applauded the positive andimportant contributions by the diplomat to developing a cooperationrelationship between Vietnam and Hungary as well as between Ho Chi Minh City with Hungarian partners. Szojka Éva Szilvia highlighted that the two countries alwayssupport each other, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, despitemany difficulties, the Hungarian Consulate General successfully organisedactivities in Ho Chi Minh City relating to tourism, cuisine, and education. She that during her tenure, she was particularly payingattention to three specific areas of water resource management, agriculturaldevelopment, and digital transformation. Each year Hungary still offered 200scholarships for Vietnamese students. Mai said that he will closely cooperate withher successor, creating better conditions for the Consulate General of Hungaryto operate in Ho Chi Minh City, including promoting activities in the threeareas and other ones relating to trade and investment between the two sides,contributing to promoting their bilateral relations. On this occasion, Mai presented the Ho Chi Minh City Badge to the Hungarian outgoing diplomat in recognition of her contribution to the city./.
The Budapest Vietnamese-language centre in Hungary recently launched the 2022-2023 academic year, in response to the Day for Honouring Vietnamese Language in Vietnamese Communities Abroad (September 8).
The Hungarian culture and food festival in Ho Chi Minh City has contributed to tightening the cultural ties between Vietnam and Hungary, thus further boosting the bilateral diplomatic relations, Hungarian Consul General in HCM City Szojka Eva Szilvia has said.
The Vietnamese Embassy and the liaison board of Vietnamese war veterans in Hungary co-organised a ceremony on December 20 to mark 50 years of the signing of the Paris Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam (Paris Peace Accords) (January 27, 1973) and the 78th anniversary of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) (December 22, 1944).
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Permanent Vice Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Chairman of the municipal People's Committee Phan Van Mai (third, from right) on February 22 receives Szojka Éva Szilvia, Consul General of Hungary in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: hcmcpv.org.vn) 
