General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party Mauro Alboresi highlighted the importance of relations with the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), while meeting with a delegation from the editorial board of the CPV’s Communist Review, which is on a working trip to Italy from September 22 to 25.He highly appreciated the approach of the CPV in preparing for the upcoming 13th National Party Congress, saying the event holds significance not only to the CPV but to the Italian Communist Party and international communists based on new theoretical viewpoints presented at the congress.For his part, Doan Minh Huan, Editor-in-Chief of Communist Review, expressed his pleasure at growing relations between the two countries’ communist Parties.Huan, who is also a member of the CPV Central Committee’s Central Theoretical Council, said the CPV has been preparing documents for the 13th National Party Congress , adding that this is an important event to look back on the 35-year journey of the CPV in implementing reforms, 30 years of implementing the political programme in the reform period, and look towards the 100th founding anniversary of the CPV in 2030.During their stay in Italy, the Vietnamese delegation met with professors of Italy’s LUISS university to discuss the political situation in Italy as well as global issues and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.The guests are scheduled to visit Greece from September 25 to 29./.