Hanoi, May 6 -- To Lam affirmed that Viet Nam always treasures and wishes to further advance its traditional friendship and Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with India, considering it one of the top priorities in its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, resilience, diversification and multilateralisation in the new period.

He congratulated India on its remarkable development achievements and spoke highly Prime Minister Modi's leadership and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition Government for elevating India to the world's fourth largest economy and one of the leading science and technology hubs.

To Lam expressed his belief that India would successfully realise its goal of becoming a developed nation by 2047, with an inc...