The visit to Vietnam by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand Winston Peters on June 5-6 demonstrates the importance the country attaches to strengthening relations with the Southeast Asian nation, a Vietnamese diplomat has said.

A ceremony in celebration of the 50th founding anniversary of diplomatic ties and 10 years of strategic partnership between Vietnam and France was held in Poitiers city on March 24.

A workshop on the Vietnam-Romania diplomatic relations was organised by the Vietnamese Embassy in Romania and the Centre for Indochina Studies in Bucharest on October 8.

Vietnam always attaches much importance to intensifying the friendship and traditional cooperation with Switzerland, Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh said while meeting with Swiss President Ueli Maurer in Bern on July 3.

Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan received Vice Chairman of the Czech Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies Vojtěch Filip in Hanoi on June 10.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, his spouse and a Vietnamese high-ranking delegation left Hanoi on May 20 morning for official visits to Russia, Norway and Sweden.

Chairman of the Cuban National Assembly (NA) Esteban Lazo Hernandez and Vietnamese NA Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu have agreed on measures to strengthen traditional cooperation between the two legislative agencies and the two countries in general.

Politburo member Nguyen Van Binh, head of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Economic Commission, received a delegation of the German parliament’s Budget Committee in Hanoi on March 27.

Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh Phong on November 25 received Peter Pellegrini, Slovakian Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Informatization, who is paying an official visit to Vietnam from November 25-29.

Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan (People) newspaper Thuan Huu hosted a reception on May 25 for President of China’s Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua) Cai Mingzhao who is on a visit to Vietnam from May 23-27.

Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang and Speaker of Tanzania’s National Assembly Job Ndugai have consented to back the enhancement of legislative ties between the two countries.

President Truong Tan Sang met with visiting Russian First Deputy Prime Minister I. Shuvalov in Hanoi in on December 15.