Hanoi, July 7 -- To congratulated Wicks on her appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to Viet Nam, expressing his confidence that the Ambassador would have a successful tenure and make positive contributions to strengthening mutual trust, enhancing mutual understanding, and advancing the Viet Nam-U.S. Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

Viet Nam always regards the U.S. as one of its foremost strategic partners and wishes to continue working closely with the U.S. to effectively realize the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for peace, cooperation and sustainable development on the basis of respect for each other's independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and political institutions, equality and mutual benefit, for the practical inte...