VOV.VN - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President To Lam left Hanoi on May 5 for a State visit to India from May 5 to 7 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

VOV.VN - The Secretary (East) at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs has highlighted Vietnam as one of the first countries with which India has engaged in a multi-dimensional manner as part of the South Asian nation’s Act East policy.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is an important pillar of India’s Act East policy and a key partner in India’s Indo-Pacific Vision, Indian President Droupadi Murmu told newly accredited Vietnamese ambassador Nguyen Thanh Hai at a reception in New Delhi on October 26.

Vietnam is one of the premier partners in the Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme. India’s development cooperation and capacity building efforts with Vietnam are also in line with the important place that Vietnam occupies in India’s Act East Policy and Indo Pacific Vision.

A European Union website has documented the 50-year history of the Vietnam-India relationship in a new article, saying it is “as clear as a cloudless sky” as remarked by late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong more than four decades ago.

VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on May 30 received Secretary (East) of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Saurabh Kumar who was in Hanoi for the 12th political consultation and the ninth strategic dialogue between the two Foreign Ministries.