Opening of the Vietnam-US Cooperation Center at Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam

Honoured guests at the inauguration ceremony of the Viet Nam-US Cooperation Center at the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam. (Photo: Minh Quan)

Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director General of the Department of International Organizations Do Hung Viet; Acting President of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, Dr. Pham Lan Dung; US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper attended the inauguration ceremony.

The event also had the presence of Deputy President of Diplomatic Academy, Dr. Nguyen Hung Son; Deputy President of Diplomatic Academy, Assoc. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan; former Deputy Foreign Ministers, Ambassador Pham Quang Vinh and Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong, and other American friends, press reporters and many students of the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam.

Speaking at the ceremony, Acting President of the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam, Dr. Pham Lan Dung thanked the US Embassy in Vietnam for choosing the Diplomatic Academy to host the Vietnam-US Cooperation Center, as well as the efforts of both sides for turning this idea into a reality, making positive contributions to the relationship between Vietnam and the United States.

Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director General of the Department of International Organizations Do Hung Viet at the ceremony. (Photo: Minh Quan/TG&VN)

Speaking at the event, on behalf of the leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director General of the Department of International Organizations Do Hung Viet emphasized that the Viet Nam-US Cooperation Center’s inauguration took place at a very special time when Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has had a very successful working visit to the United States. In particular, the Prime Minister had an open and frank exchange with representatives of more than 30,000 Vietnamese students in the United States.

Assistant Minister Do Hung Viet said that the two sides have 15 educational cooperation projects, including Fulbright University, Peace Corps and now the Viet Nam-US Cooperation Center.

In that context, Assistant Minister Do Hung Viet hopes that the Center will make a positive contribution to the cooperative relationship between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the US Embassy in Vietnam in particular and the bilateral relationship in general, especially in the fields of education, cultural and people-to-people exchanges, which are an integral part of the two countries' relations.

He added that this will be a good opportunity for students of the Diplomatic Academy to expand their knowledge and to know more about Vietnam-US relations, contributing to the cause of "one hundred years of cultivation of people” as the teaching of President Ho Chi Minh.

US Ambassador to Viet Nam Marc Knapper expected the Viet Nam-US Cooperation Center to be a space to enhance understanding. (Photo: Minh Quan)

Quoting the late US President Abraham Lincoln, “my best friend is the one who gave me a book that I have not read”, US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper expected the Viet Nam-US Cooperation Center to be a space and source of knowledge to help students enhance understanding, thereby contributing to broadening and deepening the bilateral relationship between the two countries.

Ambassador Marc Knapper thanked the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam for its support of this Center.

At the end of the ceremony, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and the US Embassy in Vietnam exchanged the memorandum of understanding, cut the ribbon to inaugurate the Vietnam-US Cooperation Center and had a look at the picture mosaic of the country and people of the United States at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.

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