Baku, May 8 -- Vietnam regards Azerbaijan as an important partner in the region and hopes for stronger ties with the country in the time ahead, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee To Lam told Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at their talks in Baku on May 7 afternoon (local time). At the talks, which took place following an official welcome for the Vietnamese leader the same day, President Aliyev warmly welcomed the Party chief, his spouse, and the high-level Vietnamese delegation on their state visit to Azerbaijan - the first by a General Secretary of the CPV to Azerbaijan since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1992. The President expressed his belief that the visit would create st...