President Nguyen Minh Triet has also appointed Vu Dung, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, as Vietnam’s Ambassador and delegation’s head at the WTO in Geneva.

The current deputy head of central foreign relations committee, Ta Minh Chau, will be Vietnam’s new Ambassador to Laos, while Dinh Xuan Luu, head of the Western Asia and Africa desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been appointed Ambassador to Israel.

The Vietnamese embassy in Israel is expected to open in the first quarter of this year.

Reported by Xuan Danh