General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong will pay official visits to Belgium and the European Union, and State visits to Italy and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland from January 17-24.

The visits will be made at the invitations of Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and UK Prime Minister David Cameron, the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations announced on January 14./.VNA