Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry names new deputy minister
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 14:33 GMT+7
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday signed a decision to appoint Nguyen Minh Hang, assistant to the minister of Foreign Affairs and head of the Department of General Economic Affairs, as new deputy minister of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Born in Hanoi in 1976, Hang earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, and a master’s degree in the major in the United Kingdom.
The newly-appointed deputy minister started her diplomatic career in 2000, and has held several positions.
Among them are deputy head of the Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, minister-counselor of the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore, deputy head of the APEC Vietnam Secretariat 2017, head of the Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation, assistant to the foreign minister, and head of the Department of General Economic Affairs.
Hang currently serves as a member of the Vietnam Women's Union Central Committee.
The new appointment has raised the total number of deputy ministers of Foreign Affairs to five, including Nguyen Minh Vu, Ha Kim Ngoc, Do Hung Viet, Le Thi Thu Hang and Nguyen Minh Hang.
Hang becomes the third female deputy minister of Foreign Affairs in Vietnam, after Nguyen Phuong Nga in 2011, and Le Thi Thu Hang in December 2022.
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