VOV.VN - When the clock stroke midnight on January 21, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivered a speech, extending lunar New Year greetings to all Vietnamese fellow countrymen nationwide and overseas.

Leaders of foreign countries have sent messages of congratulations to newly-elected Vietnamese leaders.

The new Vietnamese leaders are expected to uphold the country’s long-held policies, including further opening its markets to the global economy and balancing relations with China and the US, said Bloomberg.

El Universal and Voces del Periodista e-newspapers of Mexico have recently run an article on the elections of high-ranking leaders in Vietnam.

Leaders of countries around the world have sent messages and letters of congratulations and made phone calls to newly-elected Vietnamese leaders, including State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese senior leaders on February 25 sent congratulations to Kuwaiti leaders on the country’s 60th National Day (February 25).

VOV.VN - Top leaders of the Vietnamese Party, State, Government and National Assembly have cabled messages of congratulation to their Cambodian counterparts on Cambodia’s 67th Independence Day (November 9).