Ambassador Vu Van Dung delivers a speech at the reception. (Photo: Phi Hung/VNA)

South African Deputy Foreign Minister Candith Mashego-Dlamini made the statement at a reception on Monday for outgoing Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa Vu Van Dung who came to bid farewell to the ministry’s leaders.

Mr. Dlamini said that South Africa attaches importance to developing ties with Vietnam and stands ready with Vietnam to effectively implement common perceptions of the countries’ senior leaders, while expanding and deepening cooperation in economy, trade, investment, tourism, science-technology, culture and education, and increasing people-to-people exchange.

Ambassador Dung insisted that Vietnam places importance to increasing ties with South Africa – the only nation in Africa that Vietnam has set up the partnership for cooperation and development.