Friendship Order

Award

Friendship Order
Huân chương Hữu nghị

Type| Single-grade order
Awarded for| Foreigners and collectives of foreigners that have made great contributions to building, consolidating and developing the friendship between Vietnam and other countries in the world.
Presented by| the Government of Vietnam
Eligibility| Foreigners
Status| Currently awarded
Established| 26 November 2003
Precedence
Next (higher)| Bravery Order
Next (lower)| none

The Friendship Order (Vietnamese: Huân chương Hữu nghị) 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."[1]

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

[edit]

* Coach Park Hang-seo, 2018[2]
* Chinese Ambassador Hong Xiaoyong, 2018[3]
* Italian Ambassador Cecilia Piccioni, 2018
* Dr Joël Leroy, Surgeon, 2017[4]
* Saber Hossain Chowdhury[5]
* Asian Institute of Technology[6]
* Sergey Lavrov (25 July 2009)
* German journalist Hellmut Kapfenberger[7]
* Subinay Nandy, Deputy Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2007
* Vojtěch Filip, chairman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia[8]
* Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, 2003[9]
* Carlo Urbani, Italian Doctor, 2003, for identifying severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and issuing an early warning to the World Health Organization [10]
* Victor Sumsky, Russian orientalist, 2014.[11]

## See also

[edit]

* Vietnam awards and decorations

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Cổng thông tin điện tử Bộ Tư pháp". moj.gov.vn. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
2. ^ VnExpress. "Thủ tướng trao huân chương cho thầy trò Park Hang Seo". vnexpress.net (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2022-12-07.
3. ^ "Chinese Ambassador honored with Vietnam's Friendship Order". VietNam Breaking News. 2018-02-14. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
4. ^ "Dr Joël Leroy awarded 'Vietnam Friendship Order'". VOV - VOV Online Newspaper. 2017-03-17. Archived from the original on 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
5. ^ "Saber receives Vietnam's 'Friendship Order'". Daily Sun. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
6. ^ "Vietnam bestows highest international relations honor to AIT". Asian Institute of Technology. 2006-12-18. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
7. ^ "Vietnam's Friendship Order presented to German journalist". en.nhandan.com.vn. Archived from the original on 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
8. ^ "Filip lobboval za nemocnici ve Vietnamu. Jeho poradce měl slíbené miliony - Seznam Zprávy".
9. ^ "Бульдозеры, колесные погрузчики и другая спецтехника - ЧТЗ-УРАЛТРАК - Челябинский Тракторный Завод (ЧТЗ)". chtz-uraltrac.ru. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
10. ^ "Kiểm soát SARS tại 3 sân bay quốc tế và 2 cửa khẩu biên giới: Trang bị 6 máy cảm ứng đo thân nhiệt hiện đại". 10 May 2003.
11. ^ MGIMO, MGIMO. "Victor Sumsky". english.mgimo.ru. MGIMO. Retrieved 18 January 2025.