Prime Minister begins Algeria visit

 Following a welcoming ceremony, the two Prime Ministers laid wreaths at the monument for fallen soldiers and visited the veterans’ museum in Algiers. PM Dung is scheduled to visit the Algeria International Fair and attend the Vietnam-Algeria business dialogue on the same day. Algeria and Vietnam formed diplomatic ties on October 28, 1962. Vietnam opened an embassy in Algiers a month later, while Algeria set up its embassy in Hanoi in April 1968.