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State President Luong Cuong spoke at the National Ambassador’s Ceremony to concurrently |
Celebrating the Greek Republic of the Antonios Papakostas, the President congratulated and trusted the Ambassador in his term to promote the role of an important bridge, contribute positively, contribute to nurturing and further strengthening the traditional friendship between the two countries, especially in the context of the two countries towards the 50th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations (April 15, 1975 – April 15, 2025).
On this occasion, through the Ambassador, the President transferred his friendly greetings, the best greetings and the invitation to the President of Greece Konstantinos Tassoulas and his wife to visit Vietnam at an appropriate time.
Said that the economic-trade relations between the two countries have made many positive developments in recent years but still at a very modest level compared to the development potential, the President asked the Ambassador to the role of a bridge to promote the signing of a number of cooperation agreements in the fields of mutual interest, creating a legal framework for businesses of the two countries to expand the field of bilateral cooperation in the coming time.
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The President received the Greek Ambassador |
In order to further promote trade and investment relations between the two countries, the President suggested that the two countries continue to effectively exploit the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA); Greece helps to promote other EU countries to soon approve the Vietnam-EU investment protection agreement (EVIPA), and support and promote the EC soon to remove the IUU yellow card for Vietnamese seafood, ensure livelihoods for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fishermen and meet the interests of European consumers.
Appreciating the fact that the two countries have cooperated positively and often support each other at multilateral and international organizations, the President suggested that the two sides continue to coordinate closely at the United Nations, UNESCO, ASEAN-EU forums …
Agreed with the opinion of the President, Ambassador Antonios Papakostas affirmed that Greece focused on cooperation with Vietnam; Hopefully, in my term, it will contribute to further promoting the friendship and cooperation between the two countries, especially in the context of this year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the two countries to establish diplomatic relations.
* Congratulations to the Republic of Colombia Camila Maria Polo Florez in Vietnam, President Luong Cuong believes that the Ambassador will make important contributions to further promoting cooperation and friendship between the two countries in the direction of increasing and effective, for the benefit of each country, for peace, stability, cooperation and development of the two regions.
Through the Ambassador, the President sent his friendly greetings, good wishes and respectfully invited President Colombia and his wife to visit Vietnam appropriate time.
Colombia Ambassador Camila Maria Polo Florez thanked the President for the next time and affirmed that when he received the mission from the early days, he felt the affection of the Vietnamese people.
The Ambassador said that the President and the people of Colombia admired, always closely monitoring the development process of Vietnam as well as Vietnam’s support for Colombia’s peace process; affirming Vietnam is a reliable partner in the region and around the world.
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The President received the Colombian Ambassador |
Sharing with Ambassador Colombia, the President said that the development process of Vietnam came out from the devastation of the war, after 40 years of renovation has achieved great achievements. In 2025, there were many activities to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the two countries establishing diplomatic relations and hoping to advance to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries will have many new points, in which, the contribution of the ambassador is very important.
The President highly appreciated the role, position as well as the achievements of socio-economic development and foreign affairs of Colombia has achieved in recent years, and emphasized that Vietnam supports the peace process in Colombia and wants to further deepen the friendship and cooperation between the two countries, for the benefit of the people of the country, for peace, stability, cooperation and development in the two regions of the two areas and development in the two regions and development in the two regions and development in the two regions of the two areas.
Specifying in economic-economic cooperation, Colombia is one of Vietnam’s five largest trading partners in Latin America but compared to the potential of each country, the cooperation is still modest, the President suggested that Amiles Camila Maria Polo Florez continue to promote cooperation, promote the potential and development demand of the two countries both in terms of economy-trading, cultural cooperation, education, investment …
Regarding multilateral cooperation, the President suggested that the two sides continue to coordinate closely and support each other at international organizations and multilateral forums; highly appreciated Colombia to successfully preside over the Summit of the Forum Forum for Green growth and global goal 2030 (P4G) in 2024 and closely cooperated with Vietnam to successfully host P4G 2025; The desire to maintain regular cooperation mechanisms, actively support each other at multilateral forums, especially the United Nations.
Agreeing with the opinion of the President, Ambassador Camila Maria Polo Florez said that Vietnam is a model of development, economic growth in recent times that Colombia can learn. As a developing national role as Vietnam, Colombia is ready to cooperate with Vietnam in new areas such as artificial intelligence, clean energy; support Vietnam on multilateral and international forums.
* Welcome to Nubiela Ayala Modes appointed by the Panama government to be the Ambassador of the Panama Republic in Vietnam, President Luong Cuong believed in his term with his ability and understanding when he had time to live and work in Vietnam, the Ambassador will be a bridge, making important contributions to promoting the cooperation of the two countries’ countries constantly developing.
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The President received the Panama Ambassador to the National Letter |
The President said that Vietnam and Panama have a traditional friendship friendly relationship and support each other very well, reflected in the support of the Panama people in the national liberation struggle of Vietnam before, as well as in the process of building and developing the country today; Vietnam attaches great importance to the role and position of Panama in Central America and Latin America and the desire to consolidate the good traditional friendship, enhance political reliability and improve the effectiveness of cooperation, especially in the economy-investment, culture and people’s exchange, for the benefit of the people of the two countries, contribute to peace, stability and development in the two regions of the world and the world.
On that basis, in the coming time, the President asked the Ambassador to closely coordinate with Vietnamese agencies to further strengthen the friendship and multi-faceted cooperation between the two countries in all fields, especially politics-economic, economic, investment, as well as coordinate to organize activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries in order to strengthen the cultural and cultural cooperation in order to strengthen the cultural cooperation and culture of the two countries to strengthen the cultural cooperation, to enhance the culture of the two countries.
Appreciating the two sides always working hard and effectively at multilateral organizations and forums, the President said that the two countries also need to continue promoting cooperation, closely coordinating and supporting each other in international organizations and multilateral forums, for the benefit of the people of the two countries and for peace, stability and development of the two regions and the world.
The President expressed his belief that the ambassador will be a positive bridge to consolidate and develop a friendly partnership and multi -faceted cooperation between the two countries; affirming that the State and ministries/sectors of Vietnam will coordinate closely, creating favorable conditions for the ambassador to fulfill the working term in Vietnam.
On this occasion, through the Ambassador, the President transferred his friendly greeting, the best celebration and the invitation of President Jose Raul Mulino and his wife to visit Vietnam at an appropriate time.
Thanks to the President for the next time, Ambassador Nubiela Ayala Modes expressed his honor to be appointed as the head of Panama diplomatic mission in Vietnam, affirming that she was impressed with the long -standing culture of Vietnam and always had special feelings for the country and people of Vietnam, where she used to live and work.
The Panama Ambassador affirmed that in the term, he would try his best to promote the traditional friendship and effective cooperation between the two countries in recent years; It is expected that the two sides will continue to expand the fields of cooperation, in accordance with the potential and strengths of each party, and expect Vietnam to continue supporting Panama at international forums.
* In the morning of the same day, speaking at the National Letter Ceremony from the part -time ambassadors from Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo; Congo Republic; Burundi; Portugal; Tanzania, President Luong Cuong affirmed that this event marked a new milestone in the development of the relationship between Vietnam and the countries that the ambassadors represented.
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The President and six ambassadors concurrently concurrently at the National Letter Ceremony |
The President said that in 2025, Vietnam celebrated the 80th anniversary of the founding of the country and 50 years of reunification. From an economy destroyed by the war, Vietnam has overcome poverty and backwardness, rising to become one of the 35 largest economies in the world, with commercial scale in the top 20 countries in the world and is an important link in the regional and global production chain. From a country that was surrounded the embargo, Vietnam has established diplomatic relations with 194 countries and has a strategic partnership, a comprehensive partner with 34 countries around the world.
The President affirmed that Vietnam is facing the starting point of the new history, “the new era, the era of development of the rich and prosperous development of the Vietnamese nation”. Taking the happiness and prosperity of the people is the goal of striving, Vietnam is determined to realize the development goals to 2030 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Vietnamese Communist Party and by 2045 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the country, to make Vietnam a high income.
The President emphasized that Vietnam always attaches great importance to and cherishes the values of peace, stability, always memorizing and cherishing the help of international friends in the cause of national liberation struggle, as well as in the current construction and defense of the Fatherland. Vietnam consistently implements the external policy of independence, autonomy, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, diversification, multilateralization of external relations and friends, a reliable partner and active and responsible member in the international community.
Sharing the goal of bringing our relationship to a new level, the President hoped that the ambassadors and Vietnam to further open the potential for cooperation between the two countries; Strengthen the exchange of delegations, especially the high -level delegation to guide and create impulses for relations, learn and share experiences in the country’s development process, promote economic, trade, investment cooperation …, especially in the fields that can complement each other, promote people exchange.
Facing complicated developments in the world today, our President believes that countries and Vietnam join hands to cooperate on multilateral forums and solve global issues; Building a peaceful and developed world, a fair and political order and economy based on the basic principles of the United Nations Charter and International Law. As an active member of ASEAN, Vietnam is ready to play the role of “bridge head” connecting countries with Southeast Asia.
The President hopes that the ambassadors in his working term will do a good role in the “bridge” of friendship and cooperation, nurturing and developing more relations between Vietnam and the country where the ambassadors of the Palace. With the foundation of inherent relations, along with the positive contributions of ambassadors, the relationship between Vietnam and other countries will continue to have good developments in the near future. For its part, Vietnam will always create favorable conditions for the ambassadors to fulfill their duties.