Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union officially signed Vietnam - Eurasian Economic Union Free Trade Agreement in Kazakhstan.
Viet Nam and the U.S. established diplomatic relations on July 12 th, 1995, exchanged their first Ambassadors in July 1997, opened the U.S. Consulate General in Hochiminh City and Viet Nam Consulate General in San Francisco in November 1997.
Vietnam and Switzerland established diplomatic relation on October 11 th 1971.
Vietnam and Canada established diplomatic relations in 1973.
Viet Nam and Israel established diplomatic relations on 12 July 1993. Israel opened its resident Embassy in Hanoi in December 1993 with D. Matnai appointed as the first Ambassador to Viet Nam. Vigorous efforts have been devoted by both sides to enhancing mutual understanding and deepening the bilateral cooperative relations, especially in agriculture, water resources and health services. In 2000, Israeli Prime Minister invited his Vietnamese counterpart to visit Israel and the latter accepted the invitation in principle.
Viet Nam and the European Community established diplomatic relations in November 1990. On 17 July 1995, the two sides signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement. In January 1996, the European Commission (EC) set up its Delegation to Viet Nam and assigned its Ambassador – Head of the Delegation.
Vietnam and Japan established diplomatic relation in September 1973. Japan is one of the most important economic partners of Viet Nam.
ASEAN-China dialogue relations started when H.E. Qian Qichen, the Foreign Ministry of the People's Republic of China attended the opening session of the 24th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in July 1991 in Kuala Lumpur as a guest of the Malaysian Government. China expressed its keen interest to cooperate with ASEAN for mutual benefit. China was accorded full Dialogue Partner status at the 29th AMM in July 1996 in Jakarta.
ASEAN and Japan first established informal dialogue relations in 1973, which was later formalised in March 1977 with the convening of the ASEAN-Japan Forum. Since then, significant progress has been made in the ASEAN-Japan relations. Cooperation has broadened and deepened, covering political and security, economic and financial, and social and cultural areas.
ASEAN - India dialogue relations have grown rapidly from a sectoral dialogue partnership in 1992 to a full dialogue partnership in December 1995. The relationship was further elevated with the convening of the ASEAN-India Summit in 2002 in Phnom Penh. Since then the ASEAN-India Summit has been held annually. All these took place in a decade, which clearly signifies the importance of the dialogue partnership to ASEAN and India and the progress made in the cooperation.
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