Canada’s Prime Minister begins official visit to Vietnam
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Hanoi on November 8 to start his two-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
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The two countries established diplomatic ties in 1973 and began exchange of high-ranking delegations since 1994.
In September 2014, the Vietnamese and Canadian ministers of foreign affairs signed a letter of intent on boosting bilateral relations. In July 2017, their first political consultation at deputy-foreign-minister level was held in Canada.
Vietnam is currently Canada’s biggest trade partner in Southeast Asia and a prioritised market in Canada's Global Markets Action Plan. Bilateral trade in recent years grew about 20 – 25 percent on average, hitting US$4.1 billion in 2016 and US$2.34 billion in the first eight months of 2017.
