General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi on November 14 to attend the 20th Francophonie Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from November 14 to 16.
General Secretary and President To Lam departs for the 20th Francophonie Summit. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA
The visit is made at the invitation of Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni.
The Vietnamese delegation includes Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang, Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang, Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung, and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Tran Luu Quang.
The International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) is a major international cooperation organisation, with 90 member states, associate members and observers, including Vietnam.
The participation of General Secretary and President Lam in the summit demonstrates Vietnam’s consistent commitment to the Francophone community and the country’s foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, resilience, multilateralisation and diversification of external relations, and proactive, active international integration in line with the spirit of the 14th National Party Congress./.