Vietnam welcomes Canadian Foreign Minister

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính greeting Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly in Hanoi on April 13. — VNA/VNS

HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính received visiting Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly in Hanoi on Wednesday (April 13), asking his guest to help enhance the two countries’ cooperation in different aspects.

Highly valuing Joly’s selection of Vietnam as one of the first two Asian countries to pay an official visit to as Foreign Minister of Canada, the host noted with satisfaction that the two countries’ relations have been growing effectively and substantively as seen in bilateral trade topping US$6 billion in 2021, up 18.5 per cent from 2020, and in the partnership in the Covid-19 combat and climate change response.