Kim Hak-yong, head of the National Assembly’s Environment and Labour Committee of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and President of the RoK-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group

The decoration was handed over to the RoK lawmaker, who is also President of the RoK-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group, by Vice Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Do Ba Ty at a ceremony in Hanoi on June 13.

At the event, Kim thanked the Vietnamese Party, State and NA, and Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong for the honour, and pledged to make all-out efforts to contribute more to the relations between the two countries and legislatures in the time ahead.

Earlier, Tran Van Tuy, head of the Vietnamese NA’s Committee for Deputy Affairs and President of the Vietnam-RoK Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group, hosted a reception for the RoK lawmaker.

The two sides agreed to continue seeking measures to enhance cooperation and exchange between the two friendship parliamentarians’ groups in the future.-VNA