General Secretary, President To Lam and Spouse to pay state visit to the Philippines
WVR - General Secretary, President To Lam and Spouse will pay a state visit to the Philippines from May 31 to June 1, 2026.
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| General Secretary, President To Lam and Spouse to make a state visit to the Philippines. (Source: VNA) |
At the invitation of President of the Republic of the Philippines Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. and Spouse, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam To Lam and Spouse, along with a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, will make a state visit to the Philippines from May 31 to June 1, 2026.
In recent years, the Vietnam-Philippines Strategic Partnership has developed robustly, increasingly becoming deeper and more substantive across various fields. In terms of political-diplomatic relations, high-level contact channels are maintained regularly and flexibly through delegation exchanges, congratulatory messages, and meetings on the sidelines of multilateral forums, thereby solidifying the foundation of political trust.
In the field of defense-security, cooperation has continuously expanded in both scope and depth, with exchange mechanisms between various military branches; the content of cooperation is becoming increasingly practical, including information sharing, experience exchange, and the implementation of programs in potential-rich areas such as military medicine, defense technology, training, humanitarian assistance, and disaster response.
Economic cooperation continues to thrive with numerous breakthroughs. Bilateral trade turnover maintains impressive growth momentum, averaging over 10% annually from 2015 to 2025, rising from 2.92 billion USD to 7.8 billion USD. Notably, in 2025 alone, Vietnam's investment in the Philippines reached over 92 million USD, accounting for a significant portion of the total accumulated registered capital to date, indicating a clear trend of increasing presence of Vietnamese enterprises in the Philippine market. The tourism sector also recorded remarkable growth, with the number of Filipino tourists to Vietnam increasing more than fourfold in less than a decade (from 110,967 arrivals in 2016 to 482,173 arrivals in 2025), making the Philippines one of Vietnam's leading source markets in ASEAN.
These positive achievements have laid a solid foundation for the two countries to continue expanding and deepening cooperation in the coming time, especially in new potential-rich fields such as science-technology, digital transformation, green transition, education-training, and people-to-people exchanges.
