Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh, and Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Vijay Kumar Singh co-chaired the ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Singapore on Friday within the framework of the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc met with Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia Tony Smith yesterday in Hà Nội, who said his country will continue assisting Việt Nam with its development process.

A high-ranking delegation of the Australian House of Representatives, led by its Speaker Tony Smith, will pay an official visit to Việt Nam next week.

The ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Meeting and ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Meeting Plus took place in Singapore this week to enhance defence co-operation in ASEAN as well as between the bloc and partner countries. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said Việt Nam is ready to contribute to co-operation in the framework of the Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Việt Nam (CLMV) mechanism and proposed specific support for the countries. 

A Vietnamese delegation led by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc will attend the eighth Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy Summit (ACMECS 8) and the ninth Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Việt Nam Summit (CLMV 9) in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday and Saturday.

A jubilant-sounding President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that his "deal" with Kim Jong Un has ended the North Korean nuclear threat, as his top diplomat said he hoped to see "major disarmament" of the country by 2020.

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged on Tuesday to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula while Washington committed to provide security guarantees for its old enemy.

Canada wants to speed up the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact to offset the adverse effects of the trade spat erupting with the United States.

Malta on Sunday reiterated its refusal to open its ports to an NGO migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean with hundreds of people on board, ignoring calls from Italy's hardline interior minister to not "look the other way".