• Vietnam keen to promote cooperation with Singapore and Singapore

The visit, the first foreign one since Mr. Sang was elected State President, aim to affirm Vietnam’s consistent policy of strengthening the friendship and multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and Singapore at regional and international forums. 

Vietnam and Singapore set up diplomatic ties on August 1, 1973. The Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore opened in December, 1991 and the Singaporean Embassy in Vietnam was established in September, 1992. 

President Sang and his entourage will then visit Malaysia at the invitation of Malaysian King Tuanku Mizan Zainal Billah Shah from September 28-30. 

Mr. Sang will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, Head of the Presidential Office Dao Viet Trung, Minister of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen, and leaders from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Industry and Trade, Planning and Investment, and the Quang Ngai provincial People’s Committee.