The Friendship Order () is a service award conferred by the Government of Vietnam for "foreigners and on collectives of foreigners who have made great contributions to building, consolidating and developing the friendship between Vietnam and other countries in the world."
Criteria The Friendship Order shall be conferred or posthumously conferred on foreigners and foreign organizations meet the following criteria:
A spirit of solidarity and friendship, mutual respect for sovereignty, laws and customs of Vietnam. There are important contributions to the construction and economic development - social, security and defense of Vietnam, has many merits in strengthening and developing relations of friendship and good cooperation on the politics, economics, defense, security, diplomatic, scientific, technological, environmental protection, culture and society between Vietnam and other countries and regional and inter-regional foreign institutions, international organizations.
Recipients Saber Hossain Chowdhury Vojtěch Filip, chairman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, 2003 Carlo Urbani, Italian Doctor, 2003, for identifying severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and issuing an early warning to the World Health Organization Asian Institute of Technology, 2006 Subinay Nandy, Deputy Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2007 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov (25 July 2009) Victor Sumsky, Russian orientalist, 2014. Dr Joël Leroy, Surgeon, 2017 Coach Park Hang-seo, 2018 Chinese Ambassador Hong Xiaoyong, 2018 Italian Ambassador Cecilia Piccioni, 2018 German journalist Hellmut Kapfenberger, 2020 Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu (2 December 2021) John Paul Pullicino, 2022
See also Vietnam awards and decorations
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