Viet Nam and France agreed on the need for closer cooperation to ensure global food and energy security, while coordinating effectively at regional and multilateral forums.

Vietnamese culture left a strong impression at France’s largest Lunar New Year parade, held on March 1 in Paris’ 13th arrondissement, drawing hundreds of thousands of residents and visitors.

The 34th Festival Changé d’Air, themed “Viet Nam – Culture, Art, Cuisine, Music and Life”, opened at Le Rabelais Cultural Centre in Changé city, Sarthe department of France, on November 6.

France remains a major partner in Viet Nam’s foreign policy, with bilateral cooperation producing substantive and positive results, affirmed Deputy Minister of Finance Tran Quoc Phuong at the annual Viet Nam–France High-Level Economic Dialogue in Ha Noi on November 6.

The second Viet Nam-France International Acupuncture Conference took place in Sauset-les-Pins, a town near Marseille in southeastern France on September 16, affirming the strong cooperation between the two nations in health care, education, and scientific research.

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang presented the A-prize certificate of the literary, art and press awards on studying and following President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and lifestyle to French-Romanian artist Georg Esco, on June 18, for his oil painting “Following the Footsteps of President Ho Chi Minh”.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his spouse met with staff of the Vietnamese Embassy and members of the Vietnamese community in France on the evening of June 10 as part of the PM's trip to France for the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) and bilateral activities.