Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President To Lam and a high-ranking delegation left Hanoi on September 30 morning for state visits to Mongolia, Ireland, attendance at the 19th Francophonie Summit and an official visit to France from September 30-October 7. He makes the visits at the invitation of Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, Irish President Michael D. Higgins and French President Emmanuel Macron, respectively.

The delegation include Bui Thi Minh Hoai, Politburo member and Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee; Nguyen Duy Ngoc, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chief of the Party Central Committee Office; Le Hoai Trung, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations; Bui Thanh Son, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister; among others.

The top leader’s state visits to Mongolia once more affirm Vietnam’s foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralisation and diversification of relations, and proactive international integration. The visits also reflect the importance that the Vietnamese Party and State attach to the traditional friendship with Mongolia, as well as Vietnam’s wish to upgrade and deepen cooperative frameworks in alignment with the new situations in and interests of the countries.