Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang (R), Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations, and Ambassador Dennis Francis Smith, Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations (UN) exhange the joint statement. 

Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam, and Ambassador Dennis Francis Smith, Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations (UN), on behalf of the two governments, signed a joint statement on the establishment of the diplomatic ties between the two countries at New York.

Accordingly, Viet Nam and Trinidad and Tobago agreed to exchange diplomatic representatives at the ambassadorial-level under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

On the same day, the document was sent to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for circulation and to UN member countries for information.

At the signing ceremony.

With the establishment of diplomatic relations with Trinidad and Tobago, Viet Nam has had official diplomatic relations with all 35 countries in America as well as 192 countries worldwide, including 190 out of 193 UN member countries. This demonstrates the foreign policy of diversification and multilateralisation of international relations, and attaching importance to developing relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.

On the occasion, Ambassador Giang and Ambassador Smith had a discussion on measures to promote cooperation between the two nations. They affirmed that the establishment of diplomatic ties will help open all-around cooperation in the future.

Talking to the Viet Nam News Agency’s correspondents in New York, Smith spoke highly of the cooperation potential between the two countries, stressing that Trinidad and Tobago has cooperated with Viet Nam within multilateral mechanisms of the UN.

The Caribbean country looks forwards to bilateral cooperative relations with the Southeast Asian nation in various fields, including culture, people-to-people exchange, agriculture, fishery, energy, engineering and tourism, the diplomat said.

Establishing diplomatic relations with a self-reliant country and a reliable partner like Viet Nam is a milestone in the foreign policy of Trinidad and Tobago, he stressed.

The two diplomats agreed to continue sharing information to explore strengths and potential for cooperation between the two countries, especially oil and gas exploitation, tourism and agriculture. They pledged to strengthen close coordination at the UN and other multilateral forums./.