VOV.VN - Vietnam always values and seeks to further strengthen its strategic partnership with the United Kingdom, a key partner of Vietnam in Europe, said Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Acting Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung during his phone talks with UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on the evening of October 18.

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung had a series of bilateral meetings with senior foreign officials in New York on September 24 within the framework of High-Level General Debate of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) and bilateral activities in the US.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Tuvalu have officially established diplomatic ties, with Acting Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung and Tuvalu’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Labour and Trade Paulson Panapa signing a joint communiqué at Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York on May 24 (local time).

VOV.VN - Acting Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung on September 11 received ambassadors and chargés d’affaires from ASEAN member states and Timor-Leste in Hanoi, who extended their congratulations on his appointment as Acting Foreign Minister of Vietnam.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 30 presided over a ceremony announcing a decision to assign Le Hoai Trung, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chief of the Party Central Committee Office, as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs.