President Shimon Peres will this evening (Monday), 21.11.11, leave on the first, historic, visit by an Izraeli President to Vietnam, at the invitation of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang. President Peres will lead a 60-member security and industrial delegation, including representative of leading Israeli infrastructures, communications, finance, high-tech, water technology and agriculture firms. Science and Technology Minister Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Orit Noked and Manufacturers Association President Shraga Brosh will accompany the visit.
The 21-27.11.11 visit will be the first state visit by a senior Israeli official since the establishment of diplomatic relations [in 1993] and will take place with full ceremony. President Peres will meet with senior Vietnamese officials, including President Truong Tan San, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and National Defence Minister Gen. Phung Quang Tranh. Among the bilateral agreements due to be signed are a financial protocol, a shipping agreement and an agreement between the two countries’ chambers of commerce.
