Australian Governor-General Sam Mostyn will pay a State visit to Vietnam from September 9 to 12, at the invitation of President Luong Cuong and his spouse.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Pham Hung Tam affirmed that the visit carries important significance, demonstrating both countries’ determination to continuously strengthen friendship and cooperation across all fields, especially political cooperation, more than one and a half years after the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

For Australia, the visit reflects the country’s consistent policy of attaching importance to and giving high priority to developing relations with Southeast Asia, including Vietnam.

For Vietnam, the Australian Governor-General's visit will help implement the foreign policy of the Party and the State, which values relations with countries in the South Pacific region, especially Australia, a country that plays an important role in the region, was the first Western nation to establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam, and now maintains highly effective and active cooperation with Vietnam.

Ambassador Pham Hung Tam noted that during the State visit to Vietnam, Australian Governor-General Sam Mostyn is scheduled to lay a wreath at the Monument to Heroic Martyrs, pay tribute at President Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, hold talks with President Luong Cuong, pay courtesy calls on senior Party and State leaders, meet with leaders of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, attend the Vietnam-Australia Forum 2025, and inaugurate the Vietnam–Australia Policy Institute.

The Governor-General is also set to visit Ho Chi Minh City, pay courtesy calls on municipal leaders, meet with the Australian community in Vietnam, and tour several cultural and historical sites. Notably, during this stop, she is likely to meet with Vietnamese officers and soldiers serving in peacekeeping missions, showing her attention to a key area of defence cooperation that is being implemented effectively between the two countries.

The visit is certain to contribute to continuously consolidating and strengthening strategic trust between the two countries, while promoting peace, stability, and development in the region. With her friendly and open personality, the Governor-General will widely share stories and images from her trip to Vietnam with the Australian public, thereby helping bring beautiful Vietnam closer to the people of Australia.

The State visit to Vietnam by Australian Governor-General Sam Mostyn takes place after the two countries elevated their ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in March 2024, with six pillars of cooperation. In October 2024, both sides also signed an Action Program to realize the partnership for the 2024-2027 period. To date, both sides have coordinated to complete or remain on schedule with 96% of the total 180 actions under the program. Notably, the two countries have, for the first time, held a ministerial-level Security Dialogue; continued to effectively realize their partnership in United Nations peacekeeping; witnessed increasingly balanced bilateral trade; and recorded a growing number of Australian visitors to Vietnam, reaching nearly half a million in 2024.

Contributing to the close ties between Vietnam and Australia are cultural and people-to-people links. Ambassador Pham Hung Tam noted that Australia is home to a large Vietnamese community of about 350,000 people, and Vietnamese is among the four most spoken languages in the country after English, Chinese, and Arabic. The shared appreciation for traditional cultural values, together with the sizeable Vietnamese community in Australia, serves as an “invisible bond” that helps strengthen the friendship between the two nations.

To further enhance this bond, Ambassador Pham Hung Tam stated that both sides will continue to effectively carry out the orientations agreed upon by the two governments to intensify people-to-people exchanges, thereby deepening greater understanding and closeness between their peoples. This can be achieved by facilitating stronger cooperation between ministries, sectors, localities, and businesses of both countries in such fields as culture, tourism, sports, and education and training.

For the younger generation, in addition to creating more favorable conditions for Vietnamese students to study in Australia, the two sides should also work together to effectively implement the New Colombo Plan, enabling Australian students to come to Vietnam for exchanges and practical experiences.

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