Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính received visiting US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry in Hà Nội on Saturday, expressing Việt Nam's wish to cooperate with the US in climate change response in a way that suits the Southeast Asian country’s socio-economic conditions.

The National Assembly (NA) of Việt Nam will host the 9th Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians from September 14-18 in Hà Nội under the theme “The Role of Young People in Promoting the Realisation of Sustainable Development Goals via Digital Transformation and Innovations”.

To Việt Nam, welcoming the US leader on a State visit will help implement its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, diversification and multilateralisation of external relations, and comprehensive and intensive integration into the world.

The visit reflects its appreciation for Việt Nam’s political regime, the role of the CPV and its General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng, and Vietnamese leaders.

National Assembly Chairman Vương Đình Huệ held a meeting in Hà Nội on Friday with a delegation from the central province of Nghệ An's association of revolutionary soldiers who had been captured and imprisoned by the enemy.

The officials are Lê Đức Thọ, member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Party Committee of Bến Tre; and Phạm Gia Luật, former member of the Party Committee of Hà Nam Province, and former Director of the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

HCM City and Zhejiang province of China have numerous opportunities to beef up cooperation among their people-elected agencies, Vice Chairman of the municipal People's Council Nguyễn Văn Dũng told Gao Xingfu, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) of Zhejiang, during a meeting with the Chinese official on Friday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Lê Thị Thu Hằng, who is also head of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs, had a meeting with Lao Foreign Minister Tinh Souksan in Vientiane on Thursday to discuss the two countries’ cooperation, including in supporting overseas Vietnamese and Lao people.

Indonesian Ambassador Denny Abdi said that Việt Nam’s enormous achievements in economic development over the past decades will promote its growth momentum towards the realisation of the high-income country target by 2045.

During the 43rd ASEAN Summit and related summits, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính delivered speeches which put forth messages, directions, and practical initiatives aimed at strengthening the ASEAN integration process and enhancing its relations with partners.

In the future, he said, Việt Nam would continue its efforts to resolve remaining areas of difference to finalise land border demarcation while persisting in its peaceful efforts to resolve disputes in the East Sea (internationally known as the South China Sea).

Speaking highly of the group’s contributions to the ties between the two legislative bodies and the two countries, NA Chairman Vương Đình Huệ said the Vietnamese NA has set up the Việt Nam-France Friendship Parliamentarians' Group to strengthen the role and activities of the Vietnamese legislature in the Francophone community.

The extensive strategic partnership between Việt Nam and Japan is developing strongly, comprehensively and substantially with high political trust, Deputy Prime Minister Lê Minh Khái said when receiving Muraoka Tsugumasa, Governor of Japan’s Yamaguchi prefecture, in Hà Nội on Thursday.

In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency ahead of the US President’s visit, Ambassador Phạm Quang Vinh, former Deputy Foreign Minister and former Ambassador of Việt Nam to the US, said the visit is also an occasion for the two sides to create a new impetus and define the orientation for the relations in the next decades.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính met his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday, on the occasion of their attendance at the 43rd ASEAN Summit and related summits.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính met his counterpart from the Cook Islands Mark Brown in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday, within the framework of the 43rd ASEAN Summit and related meetings.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính had a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday on the occasion of their attendance at the 43rd ASEAN Summit and related summits.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Thursday received World Bank (WB) President Ajay Banga in Jakarta on the side-line of the 43rd ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Indonesia.