The visit is made at the invitation of Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Chairman of the Mazhilis, the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Kazakhstan, Mr Nurlan Nigmatulin.

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Vice Chairman of the Mazhilis (lower house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Bojko Vladimir Karpovich welcoming Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan

The Vietnamese delegation includes Chairman of the NA Committee for External Affairs Nguyen Van Giau, NA General-Secretary and Chairman of the National Assembly Office Nguyen Hanh Phuc, Chairman of the NA Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children Phan Thanh Binh, and others.

The Vietnamese signatories were greeted at Astana airport by Vice-Chairman of the Mazhilis, Bojko Vladimir Karpovich as well as diplomats from Vietnam and Kazakhstan.

After that, NA Chairwoman Ngan visited staff of the Vietnamese Embassy to Kazakhstan and representatives of the Vietnamese community in the country.

At the meeting, the Vietnamese Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Doan Thi Xuan Hien, affirmed that the embassy has made strenuous efforts to connect the two countries’ businesses, especially since the signing of the Vietnam-Eurasian Free Trade Agreement (Vietnam-EAEU FTA) in 2015, as a result of which the trade turnover between the two countries has doubled.

The NA leader highly appreciated contributions of the Embassy’s staff to building up this bilateral relationship. She informed them of the results of the recent sixth session of the 12th Party Central Committee and some major socio-economic situations in Vietnam.

Chairwoman Ngan hoped that the Embassy’s staff and Vietnamese community in Kazakhstan would continue being a friendly bridge in the Vietnam-Kazakhstan relations.

* Previously on the afternoon of October 15, Vietnamese NA Chairwoman Nguyen Kim Ngan met with Chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko.

Translated by Van Hieu