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State President to attend UN’s MDG Summit

State President Nguyen Minh Triet will attend the UN High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG Summit) to be convened in New York from Sept. 20-22.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet will attend the United NationsHigh-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGSummit) to be convened in the UN Headquarters in New York fromSeptember 20-22.

Also, President Triet and USPresident Barack Obama will co-host the second ASEAN-US Summit in NewYork on September 24 at the invitation of the latter, the ForeignMinistry announced in a press release on Sept. 14./.
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