He told representatives of the overseas Vietnamese community at a meeting in Budapest on September 19 that the Party and State appreciate their role and contributions to national development.

Every Vietnamese abroad acts as a messenger of friendship, helping to increase economic cooperation between Vietnam and their resident countries and to introduce them to Vietnam’s beautiful land and friendly people, said Mr Dung.

He said his two-day visit to Hungary, which ended on September 19, was successful, and the two countries discussed specific measures to promote traditional friendship and all-round cooperation.

He asked the Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnamese community in Hungary to make the best of signed agreements to expand bilateral cooperation in economics, trade, investment, education-training, culture and tourism.

He voiced support for the community’s proposal to create Vietnamese language classes and increase cultural exchange between the two countries.

In the afternoon, Mr Dung received leaders of the Hungary-Vietnam Friendship Association and laid a wreath at a monument in honour of Hungarian heroes.