Dinh Xuan Luu is a Vietnamese ambassador
who served as the country's ambassador to Poland in the early 2000s. From 2009 he has been Vietnam's ambassador to Israel. He is married to Truong Phuong Hong.
Ambassador to Israel
Luu served as the Ambassador to Israel of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He presented his credentials to Israeli President
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres ( ; ; born Szymon Perski, ; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the president of Israel from 2007 t ...
as the first Vietnamese Ambassador to Israel on July 8, 2009.
Diplomatic relations had been established between the two countries in 1993.
The Vietnamese embassy in Israel, where he is based, is at 4 Weizman Street in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...
.
In September 2011, he and
Vietnamese Ministry of Defence Deputy Minister Truong Quang Khanh led a working delegation from the defense ministry in a visit to Israel.
In September 2012, Luu said that friendship and cooperation between Israel and Vietnam had its roots in a meeting in 1946 between
Democratic Republic of Vietnam Prime Minister and President
Ho Chi Minh
(born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho () among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first President of Vietnam, president of the ...
and
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion ( ; ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary List of national founders, national founder and first Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency ...
.
He also said that trade between the two countries had risen to $660 million in the first eight months of 2012.
He spoke of cooperation between the two countries in agriculture, water technologies, IT, telecommunication, education, and
homeland security
Homeland security is an American national security term for "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive" to ...
.
See also
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Israel–Vietnam relations
References
External links
Vietnamese embassy in Tel Aviv
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Ambassadors of Vietnam to Israel
Ambassadors of Vietnam to Poland
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)