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Jakarta (VOI News) - The Embassy of Vietnam in Jakarta and the Indonesian Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam held a virtual awarding ceremony for the logo design contest to commemorate the 65 years of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Vietnam, Wednesday (18/08). The competition was won by Tran Hoai Duc from Vietnam. The Tran’s logo features Indonesia's national bird, Garuda, and Vietnam's national bird, Chim Lac, which forms the number 65 with the flags of the two countries on the right. The new logo was chosen from the results of a month-long competition involving more than 200 participants and a total of 772 works of designers from Indonesia and Vietnam.

In his remarks, the Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia, Pham Vinh Quang in Jakarta said that the strategic partnership between Indonesia and Vietnam had developed in almost all fields, including in the fields of politics, security and defense, economic cooperation, tourism, cultural exchanges, as well as relations between communities or people-to people contact. He added that the logo contest for 65 years of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Vietnam was a way to strengthen cooperation between the Vietnamese and Indonesian people.

“That’s why today’s event is not a common celebration. This is an opportunity for us to promote and strengthen our tradition relationship, for the interest of two peoples, to foster peace stability, and progress in the world,” said Pham Vinh Quang.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian Ambassador to Vietnam, Ibnu Hadi, in his remarks via a video conference from Hanoi said that the logo to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Indonesia-Vietnam relations was used during the celebration of Indonesia's 75th anniversary of independence in Vietnam on Monday (17/8/2020).

“The Indonesian Embassy for the first time used this logo in the Indonesian Independence Day commemoration on August 17, which we carried out solemnly, and was attended by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nguyen Quoc Dung. So the logo was displayed with other logos from Indonesia," said Ibnu Hadi.

Apart from Tran who won the contest, the Vietnam Embassy in Jakarta and the Indonesian Embassy in Hanoi also gave four consolation prizes to the four finalists, two of whom are Indonesian citizens, namely Fajar Soekarno Aji from Sidoarjo and Wahyu Purnomo from Banyumas. (VOI / AHM)