Museveni in Vietnam on three day state visit

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has arrived in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for a three-day state visit at the invitation of his counterpart President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

In a statement by the Presidential Press Unit, at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, Museveni was received by the Chairman Office of the President Le Khanh Hai, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Vietnam Ambassador Nguyen Minh Hang, The Director General in Charge of Middle East and Africa, Bui Ha Nam and Chief of State Protocol Nguyen Viet Dzung.

Museveni is accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeje Odongo, the Minister for ICT & National Guidance Chris Baryomunsi, The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Matia Kasaija, Ntabazi Harriet, the State Minister for Trade, and the Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Frank Tumwebaze, Uganda’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Adonia Ayebare, King Caesar Mulenga, the Honorary Consul of Vietnam to Uganda, and Betty Bigombe, the Ambassador (designate) to Asian Pacific Countries.

While in Vietnam, Museveni is expected to among other engagements hold bilateral talks with the host President, and witness the signing of agreements and different Memoranda of Understanding between the two governments. Museveni will also pay a courtesy call on the Prime Minister of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh and the Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, at the Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Museveni will also officiate the opening of the Vietnam-Uganda Business Summit and Trade Exhibition at Vietnam National Convention Center (NCC)-Hanoi under the theme, ‘unlocking investment opportunities.

The President is also expected to meet the Ugandan community living in Vietnam. Museveni will also lay a wreath on the mausoleum of President Ho Chi, the founder of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Museveni will also visit FPT University and FPT Software Hoa Lac High Tech Park and Vaccine research center or Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS) at Thanh Tri, Hanoi.

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