Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will undertake his maiden foreign visit to India this year-end, the country's envoy in Delhi has said. "Our Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is scheduled to pay an official visit to India at the end of 2021 to discuss with PM Modi measures to advance our bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership forward," Vietnam's Ambassador Pham Sanh Chau told the media Wednesday. Ambassador Chau, in fact, made the announcement during an interaction with the media on the sidelines of an event at a park in Delhi's diplomatic enclave Chanakyapuri, where the bust of Vietnam's founding father Ho Chi Minh was unveiled. In July, Prime Minister Modi congratulated Chinh -- two months after he assumed office -- and invited him to visit India at the earliest. Read: Two top Bengal Ministers charged in cash-for-favours scam India-Vietnam relations have been exceptionally cordial since their foundations were laid by the founding fathers of the two countries -- President Ho Chi Minh and India's first President Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru -- in the late Fifties and early Sixties. India granted the 'Most Favoured Nation' status to Vietnam in 1975 and both nations signed two bilateral trade and investment agreements -- one in 1978 and another in 1997. In recent times, political contacts have bolstered between the two countries -- all thanks to India's thrust under the 'Look East' policy and Vietnam's growing engagement in the region. India and Vietnam closely work in regional forums such as ASEAN.