#Vietnam - Australia

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on March 7 met with President of the Australian Senate Sue Lines as part of his official visit to Australia.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his spouse are attending the ASEAN – Australia Special Summit commemorating the 50th anniversary of their dialogue relations, and pay an official visit to Australia from March 5 at the invitation of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

A conference on counter-drug cooperation between Vietnam and Australia was held on September 26 in Khanh Hoa by the Counter-Narcotics Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the Australia Federal Police (AFP).

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and his visiting Australian counterpart Penny Wong on August 22 co-chaired the fifth Vietnam-Australia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Hanoi.

The Anti-Dumping Commission of Australia (ADC) has officially concluded its investigation and decided not to impose anti-dumping duties on ammonium nitrate products originating from Lithuania and Vietnam, the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam (TRAV) has announced.

Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong and Governor-General of Australia David Hurley expressed their delight at the practical and effective development of the strategic partnership between the two countries during their talks in Hanoi on April 4.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense of Australia Richard Marles proposed increasing defense-security between Australia and Vietnam, while meeting with Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue in Canberra on November 30.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 25 spoke highly of results in defence cooperation between Vietnam and Australia, which he viewed as a bright spot in the bilateral relations.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on the sidelines of the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and Related Summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on November 12.

Women’s participation in peacekeeping operations took centre stage of a conference jointly held by the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations under the Ministry of National Defence and the Defence Attaché Office of the Australian Embassy in Hanoi on November 3.

General To Lam, Minister of Public Security, hosted a reception for outgoing Ambassador of Australia to Vietnam Robyn Mudie on June 9.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has extended a message of congratulations to Governor General David Hurley of Australia on the 234th anniversary of Australia Day (January 26).

General To Lam, Minister of Public Security (MPS), on December 2^nd, received Mr. Marc Ablong, Australian Deputy Minister of Home Affairs in Hanoi.

PSNews - General To Lam, Minister of Public Security, on October 3 received newly-appointed Ambassador of Australia to Vietnam Robyn Mudie.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong had a meeting with Australian Senator and Minister for Agriculture Bridget McKenzie in Hanoi on August 29, where they discussed measures to boost agricultural cooperation.

The Australia – Vietnam Young Leadership Dialogue (AVYLD) 2019 was officially launched at the Admiralty House in Sydney, Australia on October 5 to bring together young leaders from both countries and engage them in promoting the bilateral relationship.

Vietnam has diverse tropical agricultural products and specialities that can be exported to Australia, said Le Quoc Doanh, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development at a Vietnam-Australia agriculture policy dialogue held in Canberra on May 8.

The Public Security Newspaper would like to introduce the Joint Statement on the establishment of a strategic partnership between Vietnam and Australia. 

With 300,000 people, the Vietnamese people community in Australia has made significant contributions to the strong bond between the two countries, experts said.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with leaders from Western Australia to seek cooperation opportunities in various fields of mutual interests such as mining, renewable energy, liquefied petroleum gas, education-training, tourism, seaport and agriculture.