External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will embark on a six-day visit to Vietnam and Singapore from October 15 to shore up bilateral cooperation in diverse areas.
In the first leg of his visit, Mr. Jaishankar will visit Vietnam from October 15 to 18 to discuss ways to review the progress in several areas and discuss ways to further enhance cooperation, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on October 14.
Mr. Jaishankar's visit to the strategically-located Southeast Asian country comes less than three months after India gifted missile corvette INS Kirpan to the Vietnamese armed forces, in reflection of the growing bilateral strategic partnership amid common concerns over China's increasingly aggressive behaviour in the South China Sea.
