Send-off ceremony for General Secretary and President To Lam at Orly airport, Paris. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA

Seeing off the delegation at the airport on the French side were leaders of the Orly region and representatives of the Protocol Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On the Vietnamese side were Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang and his wife, Ambassador Nguyen Thi Van Anh, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to UNESCO in France and numerous embassy staff.