VIETNAM - ALBANIA RELATIONS

I. Viet Nam – Albania relations

Albania recognized and established diplomatic relations with Viet Nam on  February 11th 1950. From 1954 to 1975, Albanian offered Viet Nam with government aids in goods (16.1 million rubles) and people aids (1.5 million rubles).

Since the change in the Albanian political regime (March 1992), the two countries maintained normal relations. Albania closed its Embassy in Hanoi on 24th June 1992 and assigned its Ambassador to Malaysia to hold duty in Viet Nam. In 2009, Albania assigned Mr. Kujtim Xhani as its Ambassador to Vietnam with residence in Tirana and in 2011, Ambassador Xhani has been assigned as Ambassador of Albania to the People’s Republic of China, so his current residence is in Beijing. On July 9th 1992, Viet Nam closed its Embassy in Tirana and assigned its Ambassador to Hungary to be in charge of Albania. The two foreign ministries have exchanged diplomatic notes to exempt visas for people holding diplomatic and official passports. In January 1996, Viet Nam sent an economic-trade delegation headed by its Trade Deputy Minister to visit Albania and paraphed an economic-trade cooperation Agreement, as well as an Agreement on Cooperation in culture, science and technology, but these old documents need to be renegotiated for signing. On 24/11/2011, Albania’s Deputy Prime Minister Edmond Haxhinasto paid an official visit to Vietnam, on this occasion, the two sides signed the Protocol on Cooperation between the two Ministries of Foreign Affairs./.

Vietnamese Embassy in Hungary, covering Albania
1146 Thokoly ut 41, Budapest, Hungary
Tel: (00) (361)342 5583/342 9922; Consulate: 343 3836
Fax: (00) (361) 352 8798
Email: su_quan@hu.inter.net