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| New Zealand officials welcome Party General Secretary and President To Lam (R) at Auckland International Airport__Photo: VNA |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation arrived at Auckland International Airport on August 12 evening (local time), beginning their three-day state visit to New Zealand, at the invitation of Governor-General Cindy Kiro.
Welcoming the delegation at the airport were Deputy Secretary of New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Grahame Morton; New Zealand Ambassador to Vietnam Caroline Beresford; Divisional Manager of the South and Southeast Asia Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Susannah Gordon; and Vietnamese Ambassador to New Zealand Phan Minh Giang and his spouse, along with officials and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy.
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| Officials and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy and representatives of the Vietnamese community in New Zealand welcome Party General Secretary and President To Lam__Photo: VNA |
New Zealand has also remained an effective development cooperation partner of Vietnam, with focus on areas with long-term impacts, including education, human resources training, high-tech agriculture and climate change response.
General Secretary and President Lam’s state visit to New Zealand affirms Vietnam’s consistent policy of attaching importance to the ties with the country - a friendly partner with significant potential and many shared interests with Vietnam in the South Pacific.
The trip is also an important milestone in further advancing the Vietnam-New Zealand Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in a stronger, more substantive and effective manner in the new period.- (VNA/VLLF)
