Indonesian Speaker to make official visit to Vietnam

Speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly of Indonesia Sidarto Danusubroto will pay an official visit to Vietnam from March 1-5 at the invitation of Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Sinh Hung.
Speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly of Indonesia Sidarto Danusubroto will pay an official visit to Vietnam from March 1-5 at the invitation of Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Sinh Hung.

He will be accompanied by a high-ranking delegation from the Assembly, announced the National Assembly’s Committee for External Relations on February 26.

Vietnam and Indonesia elevated their bilateral ties to a strategic partnership in June 2013, creating a momentum and opening up new chances for their relationship to grow further.

The two countries agreed to strive for a bilateral trade of over 5 billion USD by 2015 and 10 billion USD by 2018.

Two-way trade exceeded 4.6 billion USD in both 2011 and 2012 and reached about 2.1 billion USD in the first half of 2013.-VNA

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