Algeria to send foreign minister to strengthen relations with Vietnam

Hanoi, July 6 (Prensa Latina) Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel will visit Vietnam on June 13 and 14 to intensify trade, investment and complementarity in areas where one country or another has a great potential.

Sources from the local chancery said today that with this first trip to the Indochinese nation, Messahel will attend an invitation from his Vietnamese colleague and deputy prime minister, Pham Binh Minh.

Its agenda will have a strong economic focus and will include contacts with holders or senior officials of portfolios that deal with trade and investment, oil and gas, agriculture, culture and tourism, among others.

In addition to meeting with Binh Minh, the Algerian Chancellor is waiting to be received by other senior leaders of Ngo Toan Thang, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Vietnam, said the latter In recent years, the historic relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries have made remarkable progress.

One of the goals of Messahel is to review the agreements of the XIth meeting of the Vietnam-Algeria Intergovernmental Commission (November 2017) and share the criteria on the issues Vietnam's links with Algeria are the oldest of the Indochinese nation with a country in the Arab world and go back to the time when they were French colonies. Military cooperation between the two dates back to the liberation war of Algeria

However, it was only in 1962, with the conquest of the independence of the North American nation. African, Hanoi and Algiers establish diplomatic relations

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