VOV.VN - General Phan Van Giang, Minister of National Defense of Vietnam, hosted a welcoming ceremony in Hanoi on December 17 for Lieutenant General Viktor Gennadievich Khrenin, Minister of Defense of Belarus, on his official visit to Vietnam.

Politburo member and President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) Nguyen Xuan Thang hosted separate receptions in Hanoi for Ambassadors of Azerbaijan and Belarus on October 1.

Vietnam and Belarus have complementary economic advantages and great potential to promote their trade ties, according to participants at the Belarus - Vietnam Business Forum held in Ho Chi Minh City on September 23.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man hosted a reception on July 26 for Siarhei Khamenka, Vice Chairman of the Council of the Republic (Senate) of Belarus, who is leading a delegation to Vietnam to attend the state funeral of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

President To Lam received the ambassadors of Japan and Belarus at separate meetings in Hanoi on July 3.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Embassy in Belarus and the Association of International Friendship and Cultural Exchange of Belarus on May 6 held a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of Victory Day over Fascism in the Great Patriotic War, the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory, and the 49th anniversary of the liberation of the South and the national reunification.

A high-ranking delegation of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) led by alternate member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and HCYU First Secretary Bui Quang Huy paid a working visit to Belarus from March 8-10.

Minister of Public Security Gen. To Lam on December 13 welcomed and held talks with a delegation from the Security Council of Belarus led by its State Secretary Volfovich Aleksandr Grigoryevich in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President Vo Van Thuong hosted separate receptions for visiting Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko in Hanoi on December 8.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Belarusian counterpart Roman Golovchenko have pledged greater efforts to increase turnover and create conditions for both nations' goods to access each other's markets, including items such as agricultural, seafood and dairy products, agricultural fertilizers, and tractors.