PM to pay official visits to Romania, Czech Republic
(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will pay official visits to Romania and the Czech Republic from Sunday through Thursday, said the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
 Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc |
The visits will be made at the invitations of Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis. Since Vietnam and Romania set up diplomatic relations in 1950, the two countries’ cooperation has grown rapidly. They aim to increase bilateral trade to 500 million USD in the near future. Meanwhile, the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and the Czech Republic has continued to develop over the past 67 years.
According to Vietnamese Ambassador to the Czech Republic Ho Minh Tuan, two-way trade increased at about 15% in recent years.