Ambassador Pham Hung Tam received the Australia-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians

On November 3, at the Vietnam House in Canberra, Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Pham Hung Tam had a friendly meeting with core members of the Australia-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians' Association of the 48th Federal Parliament, including Senators and Representatives of the ruling Labor Party and the opposition coalition.

Australian Parliamentary Vice President Sharon Claydon highly appreciated the strong and developing comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Australia.

At the meeting, Ambassador Pham Hung Tam sincerely thanked Ms. Sharon Claydon, Vice President of the Australian Parliament , for enthusiastically continuing to assume the role of Chairwoman of the Australia-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians' Association of the new Federal Parliament (term 2025-2028).

The Ambassador expressed his hope that the Association will quickly develop, admit more new members, become one of the largest friendship parliamentarians' associations in the Australian Parliament, and actively contribute to the friendship and cooperation between the two National Assemblies and the two countries.

Ambassador Pham Hung Tam emphasized the important role of the Vietnamese community in Australia, a large constituency of over 350,000 people, with many groups enthusiastically supporting the Vietnam-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, including the Vietnamese Business Association in Australia, the Association of Vietnamese Intellectuals and Experts in Australia, business associations and student associations in most Australian states.

Vice President of the National Assembly Sharon Claydon highly appreciated the good comprehensive strategic partnership that is developing strongly between the two countries, especially in the fields of trade, investment, tourism, education and training and people-to-people exchange; said that she will continue to make a list of new members of the Australia-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians Association who are interested in Vietnam and the cooperative relationship between the two countries; emphasized that she personally is ready to welcome a high-level delegation from Vietnam to Australia and will plan to visit Vietnam with members of the Friendship Parliamentarians Association.

Ms. Sharon Claydon also expressed her interest in Vietnam's socio-economic development, including the arrangement and streamlining of Vietnam's state administrative apparatus.

Senator Andrew McLachlan, Deputy Chairman of the Australian Bicameral Communications Committee, said he was honored to become Vice President of the Australia-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians' Association of the 48th Federal Parliament; emphasizing that along with the rapid development of the Australia-Vietnam friendship and cooperation relationship, the relationship between South Australia and Vietnam is also growing stronger.

She expressed satisfaction that Vietnam has become the 6th largest export market of South Australia, about 3,000 Vietnamese students are studying in the state and a number of individuals in the Vietnamese community in the state have had outstanding successes, including someone who is holding the role of a state parliamentarian.

Other parliamentarians attending the meeting all agreed to highly appreciate the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, saying that there is still much potential for cooperation between the two sides and expressed their readiness to contribute to promoting the bilateral friendship and cooperation in general and cooperation between the two countries' parliaments in particular.

On this occasion, Ambassador Pham Hung Tam invited the Vice President of the Australian Parliament and parliamentarians to enjoy traditional Vietnamese dishes.

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