Prime Minister and his wife leave for WEF Davos Conference, visit Hungary and Romania

On the morning of January 16, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife, along with a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, left Hanoi to attend the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (WEF Davos 2024), and pay official visits to Hungary and Romania.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife leave Noi Bai airport. Photo: Nhat Bac

Accompanying Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh were: Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son; Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung; Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien; Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son; Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat; Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Hong; Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai; Deputy Minister of Public Security, Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang; Deputy Minister of National Defense, Senior Lieutenant General Vu Hai San; Deputy Head of the Government Office Do Ngoc Huynh; Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Trung....

The WEF Davos 2024 conference takes place from January 15-19 with the theme "Rebuilding Trust". Vietnam is one of nine partners proposed by WEF to coordinate in organizing a National Strategic Dialogue with WEF and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is one of eight leaders of countries having a separate dialogue with WEF.

Nearly 100 senior leaders of countries and international organizations, and about 3,000 leaders of global corporations and businesses attended the conference.

Hungarian Ambassador to Vietnam Tibor Baloghdi (first from left), Swiss Ambassador to Vietnam Thomas Gass (second from left), and Romanian Ambassador to Vietnam Cristina Romila (red shirt) see off Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife. Photo: Nhat Bac

After attending the WEF Davos 2024, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will pay official visits to Hungary and Romania. This is the first delegation exchange at the Prime Minister level between Vietnam and Hungary in the past 7 years and with Romania in the past 5 years.

The visits aim to further increase political trust, strengthen and revive the traditional friendship between Vietnam and Hungary and Romania; promote and bring traditional cooperation areas to a new stage; promote cooperation in potential and strong areas and further tighten the friendship between the Vietnamese people and the people of the two countries.

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