VNA reported that on the morning of November 16, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife, along with the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, departed for an official visit to Kuwait and Algeria, attended the G20 Summit and bilateral activities in South Africa from November 16-24, at the invitation of Gulf Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed Al-Ahmad Al Sabah, President of the Republic of Algeria Sifi Ghrieb and President of the South African Republic Cyril Ramaphosa - Chairman of the G20 2025.
The official delegation accompanying Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife Le Thi Bich Tran during the working trip included:
Member of the Politburo, Standing member of the 14th National Party Congress Documents Subcommittee Nguyen Van Nen;
Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung;
Minister, Head of the Government Office Tran Van Son;
Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Petition and Supervision Duong Thanh Binh;
Minister of Construction Tran Hong Minh; Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung; Minister of Ethnic Minorities and Religions Dao Ngoc Dung;
Government Inspector General Doan Hong Phong; Deputy Minister of National Defense, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Gau; Deputy Minister of Public Security, Senior Lieutenant General Pham The Tung.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Kuwait Nguyen Duc Thang, Vietnamese Ambassador to Algeria Tran Quoc Khanh, Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa Hoang Sy Cuong also joined the delegation.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's attendance at the G20 Summit shows that Vietnam attaches importance to cooperation with G20 members and international partners; affirms Vietnam's increasingly increasing role, position, and international prestige and increasingly active and responsible contributions to multilateral conferences and forums.
Along with that, the working trip of the Prime Minister demonstrated the consistent policy of Vietnam always attaching importance to relations with countries in the Middle East and Africa, including the three countries of South Africa, Kuwait, and Algeria.
The working trip aims to strengthen political trust, further deepen friendship, promote multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and South Africa, Kuwait, Algeria in particular and countries in the Middle East and Africa in general.
Through that, Vietnam hopes to promote and create new momentum for the development of bilateral relations between Vietnam and the three countries, towards new heights, especially promoting the signing of agreements and arrangements to create a legal framework for bilateral cooperation in the fields of trade, investment and fields with strengths suitable to the needs of each side, and enhancing cooperation at international organizations and multilateral forums.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's working trip to the three countries of Kuwait, Algeria, and South Africa continues to implement the foreign policy according to the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, Resolutions No. 34-NQ/TW and No. 59-NQ/TW of the Politburo on international integration in the new situation, Conclusion No. 125-KL/TW dated February 14, 2025 of the Secretariat on promoting and elevating multilateral foreign affairs to 2030.
