Việt Nam treasures and wishes to promote friendship co-operation with Egypt, especially in politics-diplomacy, culture, sports, tourism, and education-training, said National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân.

Việt Nam attaches great importance to the traditional friendship with South Africa, the only African country with which it has a partnership for cooperation and development, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh said yesterday in Ha Noi during talks with South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said he will instruct Vietnamese agencies to work with their Egyptian counterparts to hasten the implementation of commitments reached by the two countries’ leaders, aiming to increase bilateral trade to US$1 billion.

Việt Nam regards South Africa as one of its leading partners in Africa, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at a reception for visiting South African Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Maite Nkoana Mashabane in Hà Nội yesterday.

Trade is a top priority in the Việt Nam – Ukraine comprehensive partnership, stated Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc while receiving Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Hà Nội yesterday.

The remains of 758 Vietnamese experts and volunteers, only two of whom have been identified by name, were repatriated from Cambodia late last year and this year during the dry season, when searches for remains are conducted.

Việt Nam’s President Trần Đại Quang  and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi exchanged specific measures to enhance the bilateral cooperation in wide-ranging fields during their talks in Hà Nội yesterday. 

A leading Government watchdog yesterday praised concerted efforts to fight corruption but conceded that no breakthrough had been achieved in surmounting the scourge.

Việt Nam calls for all related parties to maintain restraint and implement denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula through peaceful measures, the Foreign Ministry’s Spokeswoman Lê Thị Thu Hằng said yesterday.