President of the National Assembly of France Claude Bartolone will pay an official visit to Vietnam in March, announced the National Assembly’s external relations committee on March 15.

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President of the National Assembly of France Claude Bartolone (Source: www.lexpress.fr) 


Claude Bartolone and his delegation will stay in Vietnam from March 18-21 as guest of National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung .

Vietnam and France established diplomatic relations on April 12, 1973.

France is currently the 5th largest trade partner of Vietnam in the European Union with two-way trade reaching 3.5 billion USD in 2014. France was also the biggest European provider of ODA for Vietnam with 360 million USD in 2014.

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