Vice State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan hosts a welcome ceremony for the Danish Crown Prince and Crown Princess
Following a welcome ceremony hosted by Vice State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan, the Danish Crown Prince and Crown Princess had a courtesy meeting with State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc receives the Crown Prince Couple
At the meetings, the Danish Crown Prince reconfirmed Denmark’s commitment to a strong bilateral relationship with Vietnam. He said that with the signing of the Comprehensive Partnership Agreement in 2013, Denmark and Vietnam moved from traditional development cooperation to a full-fledged and mutually beneficial partnership on trade and investment, green growth, political dialogue, energy, food safety, education, health and culture.
The official programme of the visit continued with the Grand Opening of the Denmark –Vietnam Sustainable Energy Summit where the Crown Prince Couple, together with a number of high level representatives of the government of Vietnam, witnessed the signing of 14 Memorandum of Understanding between Danish and Vietnamese companies.
After that, two seminars, one on offshore wind power and the other on energy efficiency, hosted respectively by the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, have created great platforms for further strengthening the ongoing debates and exchanges of knowledge and experience between Danish and Vietnamese sector decision- makers, business people and potential investors’ said Nicolai Prytz, ambassador of Denmark in Vietnam.
The first day of the official visit concluded with a grand dinner and a gala performance by renowned Vietnamese and Danish artists at the Hanoi Opera Theatre to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Denmark and Vietnam.
On the second day of the official visit, the Crown Prince will attend a trade and investment promotion event between Danish and Vietnamese offshore wind power businesses and investors in Hai Phong and visit the largest industrial port in Northern Vietnam. The Crown Prince will also attend an Offshore Wind for Kids event at the Ocean Dragon Beach (Hai Phong), where kids can play with small-scale offshore wind turbines and learn various aspects of offshore wind energy.
On the same day, the Crown Princess will attend the workshop ‘Build the Change’ hosted by the LEGO Foundation in Ha Nam province. Vietnamese children at the workshop will use LEGO® bricks and other creative materials to express their ideas & solutions for a greener world tomorrow. The Crown Princess will also visit Xuan Thanh cement plant, where Danish technology from FLSmidth plays a key role in saving up to 15% energy consumption as well as enabling up to 80% substitution of fossil fuel by alternative fuels in the cement industry.
