Bulgarian NA Speaker begins official visit to Vietnam

Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria Rosen Dimitrov Jeliazkov and his entourage arrived in Hanoi on January 5, beginning an official visit to Vietnam from January 5-9 at the invitation of NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
Bulgarian NA Speaker begins official visit to Vietnam ảnh 1Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria Rosen Dimitrov Jeliazkov is welcomed at the airport by NA Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria RosenDimitrov Jeliazkov and his entourage arrived in Hanoi on January 5, beginningan official visit to Vietnam from January 5-9 at the invitation of NA ChairmanVuong Dinh Hue.
 
They were welcomed at the airport by NA Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai, Head ofthe NA Committee for External Relations Vu Hai Ha, and Deputy Head of the NACommittee for Legal Affairs Ngo Trung Thanh, Bulgarian Ambassador to Vietnam PavlinTodorov, and Vietnamese Ambassador to Bulgaria Do Hoang Long.

This is the first visit by a high-ranking Bulgarian leader to Vietnam over adecade, following Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev's visit in October 2013.Particularly, it is a reciprocal visit following the official Bulgaria visit byChairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue in September lastyear.

The Vietnam visit will contribute to strengthening and nurturing the alreadyrobust political relations between the two countries through the Party, State,Government and people-to-people channels. It will present an opportunity forboth sides to engage in discussions on global and regional issues of shared concern,intensify substantial and effective bilateral ties, particularly in areas oftheir strengths such as trade-investment, education, health care, culture,tourism, labour, and locality-to-locality cooperation./.
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