Guests to the farewell ceremony for Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Quang Vinh. (Source: VNA)Washington D.C (VNA) – The US Department of State has hosted afarewell ceremony for Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Quang Vinh on the occasion ofthe end of his term in the US.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia Patrick Murphy, Chief of Protocol of the StateDepartment Sean Lawler and representatives from the Association of SoutheastAsian Nations (ASEAN) member countries in Washington joined the event.
Both Murphy and Lawler said during Vinh’s over-three-year tenure, theVietnam-US comprehensive partnership witnessed noted developments acrossfields, as reflected through high-level visits by the two countries’ leaders.
They cited thevisits to the US by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam CentralCommittee Nguyen Phu Trong in July 2015 and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc inMay 2017, and the Vietnam visits by President Barack Obama in May 2016 andPresident Donald Trump in November 2017.
The bilateralties in economy, trade, national defence and security, and regional cooperationhave also been enhanced, they said.
The officialshighlighted the US’s removal of its ban on the sale of lethal weapons toVietnam, the first-ever visit to Vietnam by a US aircraft carrier in March 2018,the opening of Fulbright University in Vietnam, and projects on cooperation insettling war consequences.
They thankedAmbassador Vinh for his active contributions to the achievements.
For his part,Vinh said he attaches importance to the Vietnam-US comprehensive partnershipand expressed his hope that the bilateral relationship will continue to prosperin the time ahead.-VNA
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