Paris, May 23 -- French President Emmanuel Macron and his spouse's state visit to Vietnam from May 25 - 27 will be a golden opportunity for the two sides to deepen their multi-faceted relations and handle pending challenges, particularly in trade, according to a French scholar. In a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'s resident correspondent in Paris, historian Prof. Dr. Pierre Journoud laid stress on the uniqueness of the Vietnam - French partnership that few countries can claim as well as the significance of Macron's upcoming trip, following the visits by Presidents Francois Mitterrand in 1993, Jacques Chirac in 1997 and 2004, and Francois Hollande in 2016. President Francois Mitterrand's 1993 visit helped close an old ...