July 23, 2018 | 21:09 (GMT+7)
Speaker of Australian House of Representatives begins Vietnam visit
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia Tony Smith began an official three-day visit to Vietnam on July 23.
The visit was made at the invitation of Chairwoman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia Tony Smith |
Vietnam and Australia officially established diplomatic relations on February 26, 1973. Through the decades, Vietnam and Australia have built a strong partnership with the establishment of a comprehensive partnership in 2009. They signed a declaration on enhancing the bilateral comprehensive partnership in 2015.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull signed a joint statement on the establishment of the Vietnam-Australia Strategic Partnership following their talks in Canberra, Australia, on March 15, 2018, as part of the former’s official visit.
Source: VNA