Statue of Indian literary celebrity Tagore inaugurates in Bac Ninh

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs and provincial leaders perform the inauguration ceremony of the statue of RabinDranath Tagore.

Participants at the ceremony were Indian Ministry of External Affairs led by Minister S. Jaishankar; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Vietnam Sandeep Arya; Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Head of the Provincial Delegation of National Assembly Deputies Nguyen Anh Tuan; Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vuong Quoc Tuan.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Anh Tuan speaks at the ceremony.

Addressing the ceremony, Secretary Nguyen Anh Tuan highlighted the traditional friendship of Vietnam and India. The cooperation between the two countries have reaped many important achievements not only in politics-diplomacy but also in economics and defence-security, turning them into reliable and important partners of each other, matching their comprehensive strategic partnership, Tuan added.

Indian Ministry of External Affairs led by Minister S. Jaishankar speaks at the ceremony.

There are currently 4 Indian projects investing in production and business in industrial parks in Bac Ninh, with a total investment of nearly USD 36 million. Tuan stressed that the statue of the great Indian poet is the first placed at the International Friendship Park of Bac Ninh, which the province builds to honour the cooperation and friendship between the province and foreign countries. He believed that the Minister's visit to Vietnam would further promote friendly relations and cooperation between the two countries in general and Bac Ninh province and Indian partners in particular.

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs and Bac Ninh leaders plant trees at the park.

Minister S. Jaishankar thanked the government and people of Bac Ninh for holding the ceremony to inaugurate the statue of Tagore, one of India's major cultural celebrities. He is also a poet, writer, playwright, composer, and musician... Emphasizing that Bac Ninh is currently an industrial development center with many international corporations, he hoped that Bac Ninh would continue have more comprehensive development in the future.

At the ceremony, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and provincial leaders performed the inauguration ceremony of the statue of Indian literary celebrity Tagore at the International Friendship Park of Bac Ninh province.

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs and Bac Ninh leaders visit special national relic Phat Tich Pagoda

On this occasion, the Indian delegation and Bac Ninh leaders planted trees at the park and visited special national relic Phat Tich Pagoda (Phat Tich commune, Tien Du district).