Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son receives Indian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Saurabh Kumar. (Photo: VNA) He made the statement on May 30 while being received by Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son. Indian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Saurabh Kumar was on a visit to Vietnam to co-chair the 12th Political Consultation and the 9th Strategic Dialogue between the two foreign ministries on May 29 - 31. At the meeting, Minister Bui Thanh Son congratulated India on continuing to make many important achievements in national construction and development; well control the COVID-19 pandemic and gradually recover the economy. The Minister suggested the two sides continue to work together to promote important cooperation pillars such as politics - diplomacy, defense - security, trade - investment, science - technology, and culture and people exchange, especially promoting tourism cooperation in the context that the two countries have opened their bo