New York, Sept. 24 -- Vietnamese Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung met the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun on September 23 on the sidelines of the High-Level General Debate of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) in New York.

Both officials affirmed that the Vietnam - RoK Comprehensive Strategic Partnership is in a strong growth phase, with strides across politics, national defence - security, economy, education, tourism and people-to-people exchanges.

Trung thanked Cho and the RoK's foreign ministry for orchestrating the state visit to Seoul by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam and his spouse in August, an important fou...