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PM chairs official welcome ceremony for Czech counterpart

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 21 morning hosted an official welcome ceremony for his Czech counterpart Petr Fiala who is on an official visit to Vietnam from April 20-22.
PM chairs official welcome ceremony for Czech counterpart ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) welcomes Prime Minister Petr Fiala. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 21 morning hosted anofficial welcome ceremony for his Czech counterpart Petr Fiala who is on anofficial visit to Vietnam from April 20-22.

After the welcome ceremony, the two PMs held talks.

As scheduled, the Czech government leader will also witness the signingof bilateral cooperation pacts, pay a courtesy call to President Vo Van Thuong,and attend a Vietnam-Czech Republic business forum.

The trip is the first to Asia by PM Petr Fiala since takingoffice at the end of 2021 and the first of a head of the Czech Government toVietnam in 15 years.

Given the sound growth of the countries’ traditional friendshipand multifaceted cooperation, the visit reflects the Vietnamese and Czechleaders' appreciation of and desire to strengthen the bilateral relations.

PM chairs official welcome ceremony for Czech counterpart ảnh 2Hanoi children welcome PM Petr Fiala. (Photo: VNA)
Vietnam and the Czech Republic set up their diplomatic tieson February 2, 1950. Since then, the Czech Republic has always implemented apolicy of developing cooperative relations with Vietnam in all fields.

Two-way trade reached 848 million USD in 2022, up 15%year-on-year. The Czech Republic has 41 FDI projects in Vietnam with a totalcapital of 92 million USD, mainly in the processing, manufacturing and mining.It was the first Eastern European country to provide ODA to Vietnam, with about20 million USD in total.

Currently, there are nearly 100,000 Vietnamese people livingin the Czech Republic. On July 3, 2013, the Czech Government decided to addVietnamese-Czech people to its Council of Ethnic Minorities, therebyrecognising Vietnamese-Czech people as an ethnic minority group in the country./.

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