Ukrainian president to visit Vietnam in 2018

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko plans to visit Vietnam in 2018, the press service of the head of state has reported. 

The prospects of the visit were discussed during the ceremony to receive credentials from the ambassadors of Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia and Spain, the press service reported.

"During a conversation with Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, mutual interest was confirmed in further deepening the bilateral dialogue... The prospects for the visit of the Ukrainian president to Vietnam in 2018 were discussed," the statement reads.

The interlocutors paid attention to the development of trade and economic cooperation, noting the positive dynamics of bilateral trade in the current year. In this context, the results of the meeting of the Ukrainian-Vietnamese intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation, which took place in Kyiv in October this year, were positively assessed.

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