Politburo member Dinh The Huynh concludes US visit

Politburo member and standing member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, Dinh The Huynh wrapped up his visit to the US at the invitation of Secretary of State John Kerry on October 31.

While in Boston, the Politburo member also visited Harvard University, a long-standing leading educational institution in the US.

 

At the university, he held a working session with its managing board to discuss cooperation on education and training between Vietnam and the US. He also heard reports presented by its professors on the situation in Southeast Asia as well as the relations between the US and the region.

 

During his tour of San Francisco, Politburo member Huynh met with the city’s mayor and representatives of the Vietnamese community in California and visited the Vietnamese Consulate General in the city.

 

At a meeting with US war veterans who once fought during the war in Vietnam, he briefed them on the country’s changes over the past 40 years, as well as the dynamic and pragmatic development of the Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership.

 

He hailed the veterans for their contributions to the normalisation of the relationship and called on them to contribute more to the friendship in the spirit of “putting the past behind, overcoming differences, promoting similarities and looking towards the future.”

 

(Source: NDO)