President Vo Van Thuong (Photo: VNA)His trip is a high-level foreign activity whichholds very important significance, affirming Vietnam’s role and position in the region and theworld.
It is intended to further implement the foreignpolicy adopted at the 13th National Party Congress on intensive and extensiveinternational integration, and a directive of the Party Central Committee’sSecretariat on enhancing and elevating multilateral diplomacy.
The President’s attendance at the coronationceremony demonstrates the importance Vietnam attaches to the Royal Family aswell as the Vietnam-UK strategic partnership.
Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Hoang Longsaid this is the second visit to the UK by a Vietnamese President over the pastnearly two decades, and it takes place in the context that the bilateralrelationship is at its best ever.
Notably, the year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic ties with meaningful, diverse activitiesboth in Vietnam and the UK, he added.
The President is accompanied by Minister of Foreign AffairsBui Thanh Son, Ambassador Long, Vice Chairwoman of the President Office PhanThi Kim Oanh, and Assistant to the President Duong Quoc Hung,among others./.
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