General Secretary To Lam and his wife depart for a state visit to South Korea

General Secretary To Lam . Photo: VNA

At the invitation of President of the Republic of Korea Lee Jae Myung and his wife, on the morning of August 10, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam and his wife Ngo Phuong Ly and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi for a state visit to the Republic of Korea from August 10 to 13.

According to VNA, the official delegation included comrades: Nguyen Duy Ngoc - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Inspection Commission; General Phan Van Giang - Politburo member, Minister of National Defense; General Luong Tam Quang - Politburo member, Minister of Public Security; Nguyen Van Nen - Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee ; Le Hoai Trung - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chief of the Party Central Committee Office; Bui Thanh Son - Party Central Committee member, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Le Minh Hoan - Party Central Committee member, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly; Pham Thi Thanh Tra - Party Central Committee member, Minister of Home Affairs; Nguyen Hong Dien - Party Central Committee member, Minister of Industry and Trade; Nguyen Manh Hung - Party Central Committee member, Minister of Science and Technology; Nguyen Van Thang - Party Central Committee member, Minister of Finance; Nguyen Van Hung - Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; To An Xo - Assistant to the General Secretary, in charge of the General Secretary's Office; Vu Ho - Vietnamese Ambassador to Korea.

This is the first state visit to Korea by General Secretary To Lam in his new position.

This will be an opportunity for the two sides to deepen strategic exchanges, identify directions and measures to develop bilateral relations in a substantive, comprehensive and effective manner; open up new development directions in important and potential areas of cooperation, thereby bringing practical benefits to the people of the two countries, contributing to peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world.

In the context that Vietnam is in the process of building and implementing major development orientations for the country, the State visit of General Secretary To Lam further demonstrates the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization, diversification, proactiveness, activeness, comprehensive, deep and effective international integration and is also an important foreign activity to promote the implementation of Resolution No. 59 of the Politburo on international integration in the new situation.

Laodong.vn

Source: https://laodong.vn/thoi-su/tong-bi-thu-to-lam-va-phu-nhan-len-duong-tham-cap-nha-nuoc-han-quoc-1555017.ldo