The upcoming visit to China  of Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng from January 12 to 15 is aimed at further strengthening Việt Nam-China ties and defining the long-term direction of their healthy and stable development. The Vietnam News Agency analyses that past relationship with China and its future prospects.

President Trần Đại Quang has assured R.Kh. Mardanov, Prime Minister of Bashkortostan - a federal subject of Russia - that the Vietnamese State will continually facilitate ties with Russian localities, especially in the fields of economy, trade and investment.

Visiting Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ignacio Ybanez Rubio tells Việt Nam News reporter Thu Hà that the two countries have enjoyed excellent political relations, but should make more efforts to boost economic co-operation and people-to-people exchanges.

Members of the 14^th National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee asked for measures to prevent overlapping and wastefulness in planning task while discussing the draft Law on Planning at their on-going sixth session yesterday.

“Although there remain many difficulties and challenges, the results obtained last year were encouraging, providing favourable conditions for the country to enter a new stage of development with new opportunities,” Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong told the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet).

President Trần Đại Quang lauded the effective collaboration between Việt Nam’s Public Security Ministry and Cambodia’s Ministry of Home Affairs as well as their cooperation plan for 2017 during a meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs Samdech Sar Kheng in Hà Nội yesterday.

President Trần Đại Quang hosted a reception in Hà Nội yesterday for the newly-accredited Japanese Ambassador to Việt Nam, Kunio Umeda.

The State’s responsibility for compensating those who’ve been wrongfully convicted was the hot topic as the 14^th National Assembly Standing Committee opened its sixth session yesterday.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng will pay an official visit to China from January 12-15, according to the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations.