Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, his spouse and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam left Hanoi in the early morning of November 16 to attend the G20 Summit and have bilateral activities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from November 16-19, and pay an official visit to the Dominican Republic from November 19-21.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam arrived in Stockholm on May 26, starting their official visit to Sweden at the invitation of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.