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Hanoi meeting marks Italy’s national day

The Vietnam-Italy Friendship Association organised a meeting in Hanoi on May 30 in celebration of Italy’s National Day (June 2, 1946).
The Vietnam-Italy Friendship Association organised a meeting inHanoi on May 30 in celebration of Italy’s National Day (June 2,1946).

Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of the friendshipassociation Nguyen Van Nam highlighted the development process ofItaly over the past 69 years as well as the Italian people’s creativity,passion and dedication to the development of their country.

Healso recalled the warm feelings and valuable supports of generations ofItalian leaders and people for Vietnam in the past struggle fornational independence and the nation-building process today.

For her part, Italian Vice Ambassador to Vietnam Natalia Sangitiniaffirmed that the Italian Embassy in collaboration with theVietnam-Italy Friendship Association will implement a series ofactivities to nourish the friendly and cooperative relationship betweenthe two countries and peoples.

Vietnam and Italy establisheddiplomatic ties in 1973. Italy was the first Western European country toencourage cooperation between Vietnam and Europe; today, the country isone of Vietnam's leading EU trade partners.

Two-way tradebetween Vietnam and Italy posted at 2.98 billion EUR (3.3 billion USD)in 2014, the highest value among the southeast Asian nations.-VNA
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