Dutch nationwide day marked in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis | Society

Chairman of the Vietnam-Netherlands Friendship Affiliation in HCM Metropolis (VNFAH) Tran Trong Dung (L) offers flowers to Daniel Coenraad Stork, Consul Common of the Netherlands in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis. (Picture: VNA)

HCM Metropolis (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh Metropolis Union of Friendship
Organisations on April 20 held a ceremony to have a good time the fiftieth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the Netherlands (April 9, 1973-April 9 2023) and the Netherlands’ King’s Day – the birthday of King Willem-Alexander of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands.

Talking on the ceremony, Chairman of the Vietnam-Netherlands Friendship Affiliation in HCM Metropolis (VNFAH) Tran Trong Dung mentioned that
people-to-people ties between the 2 nations date again over 420 years, via commerce alternate actions of Dutch merchants in Hoi An port in central Vietnam. 

Over the previous 5 a long time for the reason that institution of diplomatic relations, bilateral ties have made nice strides with cooperation spanning varied sectors from politics-diplomacy to trade-investment, bringing sensible advantages to each nations, he mentioned.

Stressing that people-to-people diplomacy is a crucial driving pressure to advertise friendship
and cooperative relations between nations, Dung mentioned the institution of VNFAH goals to strengthen the friendship and
cooperation between Vietnam and the Netherlands.

Daniel Coenraad Stork, Consul Common of the Netherlands in Ho
Chi Minh Metropolis, mentioned that the Netherlands and Vietnam are continually upgrading
their relationship, and are working collectively to handle essential world challenges similar to
local weather change, sustainable agriculture, and water useful resource administration.

The Netherlands and Vietnam have deep cultural connections and
mutual belief, he mentioned, including that the Consulate Common of the Netherlands in
HCM Metropolis needs to proceed to take care of and additional promote cooperation
with the town’s Union of Friendship Organisations./.