The Embassy of Vietnam in Belgium held a ceremony on June 25 to present the decision appointing Philip Yvonne J. Van Gestel, a Belgian entrepreneur active in the fields of business and maritime services, as Vietnam’s Honorary Consul in Antwerp.

Business and cultural ties between the two countries will be strengthened, said Velagapudi Kavitha Dutt, joint managing director of The KCP Limited, the new-ly Honorary Consul of Vietnam in Tamil Nadu.