Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was received at a military base in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK), on May 28 with the attendance of a deputy foreign minister and many other senior officials of the RoK Government.

The PM is visiting the RoK until May 30 and will attend a high-level meeting to celebrate 20 years of ASEAN-RoK relations on Jeju island from May 31 to June 2, 2009, at the invitation of RoK President Lee Myung-Bak and Prime Minister Han Seung-soo.

Fielding questions from the press, Mr Dung said he will hold talks with Korean leaders to discuss measures to deepen and make more effective the two countries’ cooperation in economics, investment, trade, tourism, labour, science and technology, culture, education, and official development assistance.

The PM affirmed that the Vietnamese government always attaches importance to developing long-term ties of cooperation with the Republic of Korea and wishes to join hands with the RoK to boost prosperity in the Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world.

Mr Dung is scheduled to meet with RoK PM Han Seung-soo at his office on May 29.

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