Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son had meeting with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankaron the occasion of their attendance at the 56th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-56) in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 12.
India and Vietnam reportedly discussed cooperation on judicial matters to strengthen the law and order sector to unprecedented levels in bilateral ties.
On the morning of June 30, the People’s Committee of Kien Giang province held an international conference to promote trade – tourism – investment in India and Kien Giang in 2023. More than 100 entrepreneurs from 11 states of India with fields including: engineering, agriculture, food processing, textiles, chemicals, information technology and tourism involved.
"Indian visitors to Vietnam are expected to increase by at least 1,000% compared to pre-pandemic", the article of the US television channel CNN emphasized in a forecast that visitors to the world's most populous country will "explode" in Southeast Asia.
President Vo Van Thuong on June 3 sent a message of condolences to his Indian counterpart Droupadi Murmu over the deadly train crash which left many people dead and injured in India’s Odisha state a day earlier.
The Indian Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City will hold a range of cultural exchange, and trade, investment and tourism promotion programmes in 2023, aiming to foster the ties between India and Vietnam, said Indian Consul General Madan Mohan Sethi at a press briefing in the city on May 30.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Indian counterpart Narendra Damodardas Modi affirmed their recognition of the great importance of the traditional and long-standing friendship that exists between the two countries at their meeting held on May 20 in Hiroshima in Japan.