Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang (R), Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations, and Ambassador Dennis Francis Smith, Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations (UN) exhange the joint statement. (Photo: VNA) Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative ofVietnam, and Ambassador Dennis Francis Smith, Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations (UN), on behalf of the two governments,signed a joint statement on the establishment of the diplomatic ties between the two countries at New York.
Accordingly, Vietnam and Trinidad and Tobago agreed to exchange diplomatic representatives at the ambassadorial-level under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
On the same day, the document was sent to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for circulation and to UN member countries for information.
Withthe establishment of diplomatic relations with Trinidad andTobago, Vietnam has had official diplomatic relations with all 35 countries in America as well as 192 countries worldwide,including 190 out of 193 UN member countries. This demonstrates the foreignpolicy of diversificationand multilateralisation of internationalrelations, and attaching importance to developing relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
At the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA) Talking to the Vietnam News Agency’s correspondents in NewYork, Smith spoke highly of the cooperation potential between the twocountries, stressing that Trinidad and Tobago has cooperatedwith Vietnam within multilateral mechanisms of the UN.
The Caribbean country looks forwards to bilateral cooperative relations withthe Southeast Asian nation in various fields, including culture, people-to-peopleexchange, agriculture, fishery, energy, engineering and tourism, the diplomatsaid.
Establishing diplomatic relations with a self-reliant countryand a reliable partner like Vietnam is a milestone in the foreign policy of Trinidad and Tobago, he stressed.
The two diplomats agreed to continue sharing information to explorestrengths and potential for cooperation between the two countries, especiallyoil and gas exploitation, tourism and agriculture. They pledgedto strengthen close coordination at the UN and other multilateral forums./.
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