Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev arrived in Hanoi on Sunday afternoon, starting his official visit to Vietnam from Sunday to Tuesday at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Vo Van Thuong.

This is his first visit to Vietnam since he assumed power in 2019 and the first visit by a Kazakh president in 12 years.

President Tokayev and his entourage were welcomed at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi by Chairman of the Presidential Office Le Khanh Hai, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang, along with Kazakh and Vietnamese diplomats.

The top Kazakh official was accompanied by a number of Kazakh ministers and leaders of corporations in the fields of energy, transportation, and national investment funds.

During his three-day stay in Vietnam, President Tokayev will meet with leaders of the Vietnamese Party, state, government, and lawmaking National Assembly, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

President Thuong will chair an official welcome ceremony for his Kazakh counterpart in Hanoi on Monday.

The two leaders will then hold talks and witness the signing of several cooperation documents.

The two state leaders are expected to visit Chu Dau pottery village in northern Hai Duong Province, one of the most famous craft villages in Vietnam.

His visit to the Southeast Asian nation was originally scheduled to take place from June 11 to 13 this year, but it was postponed due to major forest fires in the Abay region of the Central Asian country.

Before becoming the second president of Kazakhstan in June 2019, Tokayev briefly served as acting president after assuming various positions as foreign minister, prime minister, president of the Senate of Kazakhstan, and director-general of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland.

Vietnam and Kazakhstan established diplomatic relations in 1992 and their bilateral relationship have developed fruitfully ever since.

With an area of more than 2.7 million square kilometers, Kazakhstan is strong in such industries as food, construction, chemical production, metallurgy, and petro-chemistry.

Meanwhile, Vietnam has a strength in agricultural production with many key products.

Trade between Kazakhstan and Vietnam reached nearly US$600 million in 2022, and the two nations are striving to increase the figure to $1.5 billion by 2030.

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