President to begin state visit to Indonesia from December 21 afternoon
Hanoi (VNA) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam will leave Hanoi on December 21 afternoon to pay a three-day state visit to Indonesia at the invitation of Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
Prominent among his entourage is Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son.
This is the first trip to the country by a key Vietnamese
leader after the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam and
also the first by a Vietnamese President over the past nine years, as the two
nations are preparing for the 10th founding anniversary of strategic
partnership.
It is expected to strengthen political trust and deepen multifaceted
cooperation, thus developing the bilateral relations in an
increasingly practical and effective manner.
Vietnam and Indonesia established diplomatic relations in
1955 and set up the strategic partnership in 2013./.