(VOVworld) - French President Francois Hollande pays an official visit to Vietnam from September 5 to 7. The visit is to concretize the strategic partnership that Vietnam and France signed in 2013 and to clarify directions of cooperation in politics-diplomacy, security-defense, trade-investment, science-technology, and education-training. This is the first visit to Vietnam by a French president after 12 years since President Jacques Chirac’s visit in 2004. President Hollande will hold talks with President Tran Dai Quang and meet with leaders of the Vietnamese Party, government, and National Assembly.

There will be 20 documents to be signed during the visit. France is now Vietnam’s 5^th largest trade partner in the European Union with two-way trade turnover reaching 4.3 billion USD. France is the 3^rd largest European investor and the 16^th among foreign investors in Vietnam with a total registered capital of 3.4 billion USD.