Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son received Special Advisor to the Japan - Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance Takebe Tsutomu in Hanoi on July 22, highlighting the countries' growing locality-to-locality cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a meeting with Romanian President of the Chamber of Deputies Alfred Simonis on January 22 (local time) as part of his official visit to the European country.

Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Ngo Thanh Son on October 27 held talks with Wang Mingyu, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of Liaoning province, who is on a working visit to the city, to discuss future cooperation orientations between the two localities.

Seychelles always considers Vietnam a close friend and wishes the bilateral cooperation will record new development steps, especially in tourism, telecommunications, trade, investment, an fisheries, President Wavel Ramkalawan told Vietnamese Ambassador to Mozambique and Seychelles Pham Hoang Kim.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on July 13 held a virtual signing ceremony of memoranda of understanding (MoU) with Uzbekistan’s partners.

The youth of Ho Chi Minh City and Japan’s Osaka prefecture should promote friendship cooperation in cultural exchanges and science-technology, thus further strengthening relations between the two localities, said HCM City official.

Officials of southern Binh Duong province and the Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi had a working session on August 21 to mull over ways bolstering cooperation in the time ahead.