On the morning of November 20, the plane carrying Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife, along with the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, arrived at Las Americas airport, Santo Domingo, to begin an official visit to the Dominican Republic at the invitation of Dominican President Luis Abinader and his wife.
This is the first time a key leader of Vietnam has visited the Dominican Republic; demonstrating Vietnam's respect and desire to continue to consolidate and deepen the fine solidarity, friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, towards the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The welcoming ceremony for Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife, along with the Vietnamese delegation on an official visit to Dominica, was solemnly held at the airport with the presence of Dominica's Minister of Agriculture Limber Cruz, Dominica's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Julio Gomez, Dominican Republic Ambassador to Vietnam Jaime Francisco Rodríguez, Director of the Protocol Department, Dominican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Francisco José Cantizano Nadal, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba and Dominica Le Quang Long and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba and Dominica.
During the visit, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is expected to hold talks with the President of the Dominican Republic, meet with the President of the Senate, President of the Dominican House of Representatives, and have other important activities.
Vietnam-Dominica relations were founded in 1965, when President Ho Chi Minh met with revolutionary, Professor Juan Bosch, the first President of the democratic Dominican Republic, when he visited Hanoi to attend the Conference of Latin American countries in solidarity with Vietnam. The two countries officially established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level on July 7, 2005.
After nearly 20 years, the diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Dominica have developed well. Although the economic and trade relations between the two countries account for a small proportion of the total trade turnover of each country, they have recorded rapid development.
Accordingly, two-way trade turnover has increased from 36.5 million USD in 2013 to nearly 150.2 million USD in 2022; 95.8 million USD in 2023; 56 million USD in the first 9 months of 2024.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's visit to Dominica this time contributes to consolidating political trust, deepening multifaceted cooperation, making bilateral relations more substantive and effective; creating momentum to promote the expansion of economic, trade and investment relations between Vietnam and Dominica, especially in potential areas such as agriculture, industry, construction materials production, export processing zone business, energy-oil and gas, telecommunications and tourism.
Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/thu-tuong-pham-minh-chinh-va-phu-nhan-bat-dau-tham-chinh-thuc-cong-hoa-dominica.html
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