Hungary’s National Day celebrated
VGP - The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations and the municipal chapter of the Vietnam-Hungary Friendship Association (VHFA) have held a gathering to celebrate the National Day of Hungary (August 20).
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Mr. Triet highlighted the time-honoured friendship and growing cooperation between the two countries, including those between Ho Chi Minh City and Hungary’s Budapest capital.
He spoke of the role of the VHFA over the past years in connecting Vietnamese and Hungarian partners and closely working with the Hungarian Consulate General in HCM City to carry out numerous exchanges and cooperative and friendly activities between the two countries, and HCM City and Budapest in particular.
Hungarian Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City Baloghdi Tibor expressed his joy at the Viet Nam-Hungary strategic partnership since the Hungarian President Viktor Orban's visit to Viet Nam in 2017.
He said that Huangrian businesses are interested in investment opportunities in Vietnam and HCM City. Many cooperation projects of education , training and health between the two sides will be carried on in coming time.
Ho Chi Minh City and Budapest signed an agreement on increasing friendship and cooperation in 2015. Two years later, HCM City’s District 1 and Budapest’s District 11 set up friendly and cooperative relations. From this year, Hungary provides 200 scholarships for Vietnamese students, doubling that of 2017.
By Vien Nhu
