The PM said unity has always been a valuable tradition, a source of strength, an important motivation and a decisive factor for all victories in the cause of national construction and defence of Vietnamese people.

The Party and State always pays attention to and creates favourable conditions for religious and spiritual needs, helping encourage people to stay united in the great national unity bloc, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has declared.

The event attracted nearly 1,000 Vietnamese intellectuals who are studying and working in Japan.  

Vietnamese defence minister Ngô Xuân Lịch has called on ASEAN members to consolidate the bloc’s unity, foster ASEAN centrality principle in the face of “strategic competition” in the region between world’s major powers.