FOSCO Leader attended the UK Queen’s 91st Birthday Celebration

On the evening of June 6, on behalf of FOSCO Leaders, Mr. Dao Cong Duong, Director of Employment Service Center, attended and offered congratulations and flowers to the UK Queen’s 91st Birthday Celebration, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The event was honored to have Mr. Giles Lever, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Vietnam, who attended and gave a speech at the ceremony.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Ian Gibbons expressed that UK wishes to keep the strongest possible economic links with important partners around the world including Vietnam. There have been very positive and productive visits to Vietnam in recent months by Lord Price, our Minister of State for Trade Policy; by Dr Liam Fox, the UK Secretary of State for International Trade. The flow of visits has worked both ways, with senior Vietnamese visitors travelling to the UK. This has included the Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong and most recently in April, by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Giving a speech at the ceremony, Mr. Le Thanh Liem, First Deputy Chairman of HCMC People’s Committee, expressed many congratulations to the birthday celebration for Queen Elizabeth II, who has the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Last February, she became the first British monarch to reach the Sapphire Jubilee which marked 65 years of her reign. Mr. Liem emphasized that the Strategic-partners relationship between Vietnam and the UK, since established in 2010, has been strongly developed. As the train head in economics, the port of international communication and integration of Vietnam, HCMC has always been promoting cooperation with the United Kingdom. The good relationship between HCMC and the UK isn’t only showing through the figures in trades, investment and tourism but also through the numbers of high-level visits between the two countries. Mr. Le Thanh Liem sincerely showed his sympathy with the country and British people for the political changes that they have had to go through and strongly condemned terrorist acts in any form, among which was the bombing in Manchester and London recently.
The event took place in a solemn atmosphere with the UK Royal drum-performance at the opening & closing ceremony and dedicated a minute of silence in mourning for those who have died recently in the Manchester and London terror attacks.

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