Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Leaders of various countriescontinue to send greetings to Vietnam on the 75th anniversary ofNational Day (September 2, 1945-2020).
In his messages to Party General Secretary and StatePresident Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah lauded Vietnam’srole as the ASEAN Chair in 2020, especially in leading intra-bloc cooperationto deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
He highly valued the sounddevelopment of the Vietnam-Brunei partnership at all levels, affirming his hopeto continue promoting the bilateral comprehensive partnership and expandingcollaboration to new areas for the benefit of both sides as well as peace,stability and prosperity in the region.
Meanwhile, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier extendedhis greetings to Party General Secretary and State President NguyenPhu Trong, hailing Vietnam’s success in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic andappreciating Vietnam’s gift of face masks to Germany, which showed thesolidarity spirit amidst difficulty.
The German leader expressed pleasure at the growing tiesbetween the two countries. He underlined that this year when Vietnam performsthe double roles of a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council and ASEANChair and Germany performs the role of rotating presidency of the EU, the twocountries can coordinate to make contributions in regional and multilateral frameworksto the settlement of urgent global issues, especially the fight againstCOVID-19 pandemic.
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Prime MinisterAbdelaziz Djerad sent their greetings to Party General Secretary and StatePresident Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on the specialday.
Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trongalso received greetings from King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and CrownPrince, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia; King of the Netherlands Williem Alexander; King ofSweden Carl Gustaf R; the Czech Republic President Milos Zeman; ZambianPresident Edgar Chagwa Lungu; South African President Cyril Ramaphosa;Mozambican President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi; and Jordan’s King Abdullah II binAl-Hussein.
Greetings to the Party andState leader also came from General Secretary of the Sandinista NationalLiberation Front (FSLN) and President ofNicaragua Daniel Ortega Saavedra, andVice President Rosario Murillo; Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi; Panama’s PresidentLaurentino Cortizo Cohen; Palestine’s President and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation OrganizationMahmoud Abbas; the Central Committee of the Chilean Communist Party, andChairman of the Japanese Communist Party KazuoShii.
Meanwhile, Prime MinisterNguyen Xuan Phuc got greetings from PM of Algeria Abdelaziz Djerad; the CzechRepublic’s PM Andrej Babis; Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan; Poland’s PM MateusMorawiecki; and Bulgaria’s PM Boyko Borissov.
On the occasion, DeputyPrime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh also received greetingmessages from the second Foreign Minister of Brunei, and the Foreign Ministersof Algeria, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Colombia, Panama, Paraguay andPeru./.
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