To leader To Lam starts three-day State visit to New Zealand

The top Vietnamese leader was welcomed by Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Grahame Morton and New Zealand Ambassador to Viet Nam Caroline Beresford.

Over more than 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations in June 1975, the two countries have continuously strengthened the solid foundations of their bilateral ties.

Both countries are expanding cooperation in smart agriculture, climate change adaptation and carbon markets, in line with Vietnam's green growth goals.

New Zealand has consistently been an effective development cooperation partner of Viet Nam, focusing on areas with long-term impacts such as education, human resource training, high-tech agriculture and climate change response.

The Vietnamese leader's State visit to New Zealand reaffirms the nation's consistent policy of attaching importance to its relations with New Zealand, a friendly and highly promising partner that shares many similarities with Viet Nam in the South Pacific region.

The visit also marks an important milestone in further advancing the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two nations towards a stronger, more substantive and effective manner in the new period./.