September 30, 2022 08:15 Journalist Usama Soliman
VIENNA/ Austria and Vietnam celebrated today the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

A statement by the Austrian Foreign Ministry said today, Thursday, that Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg met his Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son in Vienna, and they discussed good bilateral relations and the various hotbeds of international tension at the present time.

The statement noted the Foreign Minister's special emphasis on the close trade relations that have developed between the two countries over the past fifty years, as the volume of Austrian-Vietnamese trade increased forty-fold between 1995 and 2021 to a record level of 1.38 billion euros.

Yesterday, the Vietnamese Embassy in Vienna organized a concert at the "House of Music" on this occasion, in the presence of ambassadors, public figures and leaders of international organizations.

 

 

The two Kings Philippe and Van der Bellen havedifferent backgrounds, one is of royal origin, and the other is a child of a refugee family (once of noble origin) but now, in the eyes of the European public, both of them are giving off a sense of courtesy, virtue and erudition.

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With the attendance of many international figures, the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II was celebrated at the United Nations headquarters.

Journalist Usama Soliman

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