Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son to visit Australia

The visit is made at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia Penny Wong, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Pham Hung.

This is one of five ministerial-level mechanisms between Viet Nam and Australia, making important role to promote the bilateral ties especially in terms of politics, foreign relations as well as regional and international forums.

On this occasion, the two sides will convene the fourth Australia-Viet Nam Economic Partnership Meeting.

Ambassador Pham Hung said the upcoming visit is expected to materialize the extremely important results achieved during Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's official visit to Australia in March 2024, during which both sides upgraded bilateral ties to comprehensive strategic partnership.

Specifically, the two sides are expected to discuss measures to boost the bilateral ties in such areas as digital transformation, green transformation, climate change adaptation; promote the completion of the Action Program to implement the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the new period with content covering all key areas of cooperation.

Both sides will also talk on regional and international issues of common interest and concern.

During the visit, Bui will also meet with Australian Minister for Trade and Tourism Don Farrell, attend and deliver a speech at the Australia-Vietnam Policy Institute Conference 2024, tour the University of Adelaide, and meet with Vietnamese lecturers and students at the university.

Two-way trade turnover has developed in a balanced manner, reaching over US$9.6 billion in the first eight months, of which Viet Nam's export turnover surged by 27.3 percent, surpassing the national average rate of 15.8 percent.

People-to-people exchanges are becoming increasingly vibrant. The number of Australian tourists to Viet Nam surpassed 300,000 in the first eight months. Australia was the first country to send relief aid and donated over AUD3 million (US$2 million) to help the country mitigate the consequences of Typhoon Yagi.

Cooperation in defense and security has also made positive new strides. The two sides recently successfully held the first Ministerial Security Dialogue in Canberra, Australia. Vessel 18 of Brigade 171 of Naval Region 2 participated in Exercise Kakadu 2024 organized by the Royal Australian Navy last month./.