2023 is expected to boost the strategic partnership between Vietnam and Italy

The Embassy of Vietnam in Italy has organized a press conference to announce the Year 2023 Vietnam-Italy and the plan to celebrate the 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties (March 23, 1973) and the 10 years of the strategic association between the two countries (January 2013-2023).

The press conference was attended by the Italian Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Maria Tripodi, and the President of the Rome City Council, Svetlana Celli, among other Italian authorities.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Duong Hai Hung stated that the embassy will coordinate with Italian agencies and localities to organize celebration activities in Rome, Milan, Florence, Venice, Naples and other cities throughout 2023.

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These activities are expected to open up opportunities for cooperation, deepen strategic partnership, and facilitate collaboration in politics, economy, investment, culture-education, science-technology, tourism, innovation, digital economy, green economy, and renewable energy, as well as exchange between people and cooperation between localities, focusing on economic ties.

For his part, Tripodi stated that Italy considers Vietnam an important interlocutor and an essential partner for stability and economic development in Asia-Pacific.

The bilateral relationship has been developing intensely and extensively, as reflected in the regular exchange of delegations at the highest level, with the last meeting between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh on the sidelines of the ASEAN Commemorative Summit. -EU in Brussels in December 2022, he said.

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