Vietnam and Malaysia have a long-standing friendship withexcellent cooperation in many areas since they established diplomaticrelations on March 30, 1973.
Since then, the bilateral ties have flourished, especiallyafter being advanced to a strategic partnership in 2015. Despitechallenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, two-way trade reached 12.5 billion USD in 2021, up 25.5percent from the previous year./.