Australian PM’s Việt Nam visit a success: researcher

SYDNEY – Dr. Nguyen Hồng Hải, a researcher at the Centre for Policy Futures under the University of Queensland in Australia, has noted that the freshly-concluded visit to Việt Nam by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was a success, as reflected through the agreements reached by the two sides on both bilateral and multilateral issues. Albanese paid an official visit to Việt Nam from June 3-4 at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Phạm Minh Chính. Therefore, Vietnamese and Australian leaders set the targets of raising bilateral trade to US$20 billion and doubling the two-way investment, the researcher said. He held that PM Albanese’s friendliness demonstrates not only his sentiments towards Việt Nam and his love for Vietnamese culture, but also the special importance Australia attaches to its relations with the Southeast Asian nation. It also mirrors the success of Việt Nam’s foreign policy, thus facilitating relations between Việt Nam and other countries, he went on.