On May 12, 2011 in Hanoi Ambassador of Ukraine to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Oleksiy Shovkoplias made a speech at the International Conference «Relationship of Ukraine and Vietnam: history, present situation and prospects», organized by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences to discuss a wide range of bilateral relation issues between our countries. The Ukrainian side was represented by Academician-Secretary of the Department of History, Philosophy and Law of the Ukraine National Academy of Science, Director General of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Oleksiy Onyshchenko, a research officer of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ukraine National Academy of Science Viktoriya Musiychuk, Ukrainian diplomats. First secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine Oleh Ischenko made a speech on the present situation and prospects of trade-economic, scientific and technical cooperation with Vietnam.