Within the framework of the activity program of the Vietnam - UK Friendship Year 2023, celebrating 50 years of diplomatic relations, the Vietnamese Ambassador to the UK paid a working visit to Belfast city in Northern Ireland.

Vietnam DPM and FM Pham Binh Minh on May 22 held phone talks with his Irish counterpart Simon Coveney to discuss measures to enhance bilateral cooperation and coordination between the two nations. Ireland spoke highly of Vietnam’s drastic and effective measures and its active role of the ASEAN Chair and UNSC non-permanent member in pushing back the COVID-19 pandemic.

A man from Northern Ireland has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese nationals in a lorry trailer in Essex (the UK) last month, Sky News reported on November 22.