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The working trip not only helped strengthen partnerships but also created opportunities for Da Nang to gain access to advanced development models.

PSNews – On September 16, the Hanoi Municipal People's Committee in collaboration with the French Embassy in Vietnam, organized an international seminar titled "Research on restoring and promoting the historical and cultural value of Long Bien bridge". 

PSNews - “Friendship, Partnership, Confidence,” French Ambassador to Vietnam Olivier Brochet underlined the above three words when featuring the France-Vietnam relationship, in a recent press interview.

A total of 50 paintings of Vietnam’s contemporary art collected since the 1930s are on display at an exhibition in Paris, France.

French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son have agreed to continue strengthening exchange visits and meetings at all levels with a view to bringing cooperation between the two countries to new heights in the time ahead.

Defence Minister General Phan Van Giang said his belief that the Vietnam-France defence ties will further develop in the time ahead, during his reception for Alice Guitton, Director General for International Relations and Strategy at the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, in Hanoi on April 15.

France has presented Vietnam with approximately 1.4 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, raising the number of French-donated vaccine doses to more than 2 million.

The Ministry of National Defence of Vietnam and the Ministry of Armed Forces of France will strengthen cooperation in existing areas, find solutions to promote projects in the field of defense equipment and seek new cooperation opportunities.

During his working visit to France, Minister of Public Security General To Lam leading a delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security on November 3 offered a floral tribute to President Ho Chi Minh in his memorial site in Montreuil on the outskirts of Paris, France.

Immediately after talks held between Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and French Prime Minister Jean Castex on the evening of November 3 (local time), both sides witnessed the signing ceremony of various co-operation agreements between the two nations' agencies and businesses.

Van Don International Airport in Quang Ninh province received 301 passengers on September 23, all of whom had vaccine passports on board one Vietnam Airlines flight which had departed from France.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 22 requested that France continue to donate, lend and cede COVID-19 vaccines and cooperate in transferring vaccine and drug production technology to Vietnam.

Vietnam is ready to cooperate with France in conducting the third phase of clinical trials of and transferring production technology of its XAV-19 COVID-19 treatment drug, said Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan.

France has decided to share 670,000 doses of COVID-19 Astra Zeneca vaccine with Vietnam via the COVAX Facility, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter on August 12.

Vietnam welcomes the stance held by other countries on the East Sea issue that conforms with international law, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said in response to a question from a reporter about Vietnam’s view of a joint note sent by the UK, France, and Germany to the UN on September 16.

 France, Germany, and the United Kingdom have come together to issue a joint note verbale to the United Nations in order to challenge China’s claims in the South China Sea, known locally as the East Sea.

Secretary of the Hanoi municipal Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai has affirmed that Vietnam always highly values France’s role and position in its foreign policy and will do its best to foster bilateral ties in the near future.

Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of the Party Central Committee’s Organisation Commission Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on July 21 for a visiting delegation from the French Communist Party led by its National Secretary Fabien Roussel.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung spoke highly of France’s investment in Vietnam while hosting a reception in Hanoi on May 15 for several large French enterprises operating in infrastructure and aviation.