Vietnam’s top leader Lam to visit US, Cuba next week

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s president and ruling Communist Party chief To Lam will pay a working visit to the United States next week and participate in the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to a government statement.

After that, Lam will pay an official visit to Cuba, Vietnam’s long-term communist partner.

Lam’s visit will take place from September 22-27, the statement said. It did not give specific timeframe of Lam’s visit to each country.

Reuters on Tuesday reported that during his U.S. visit, Lam will deliver a speech at the UN event and meet representatives from several U.S. corporations, including Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Google and Facebook (NASDAQ:) owner Meta.

The government statement did not say whether Lam would meet U.S. President Biden during the U.S. trip.