The 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM 51) ended on August 2 in Singapore with a Joint Communiqué urging the bloc to enhance its internal strength through increasing intra-bloc trade and investment and regional economic connectivity.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh met with his counterparts from the Republic of Korea (RoK), Laos, Indonesia and Malaysia on the sidelines of the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM-51) and related meetings in Singapore yesterday.

Việt Nam Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh welcomed the Singapore-proposed theme of building a resilient and innovative Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) while addressing the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM Retreat) in Singapore yesterday.

APEC Year 2017, with the freshly-concluded APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Đà Nẵng city the highlight, was comprehensively successful, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh told the media on Monday. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc highlighted three key areas of ASEAN co-operation in his speech at the plenary session of the 31st ASEAN Summit held yesterday in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.

APEC ministers have adopted a number of initiatives of practical significance to presented to the leaders of the 21 member economies when they sit together for the one-day meeting on Saturday in Đà Nẵng City, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh.

 Australia will invest AU$33.7 million (US$25.6 million) through the new Aus4Equality programme, focusing on Sơn La and Lào Cai provinces in the north-west of Việt Nam.

 APEC continues to prove its ability to adapt, to transform and to lead, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Chair of 2017 APEC National Committee, Phạm Bình Minh, said at the opening of the 29th APEC Ministerial Meeting (AMM) in the central city of Đà Nẵng.

The 2017 APEC Economic Leaders’ Week, hosted by Việt Nam, commenced in central Đà Nẵng City on Monday with the opening session of the two-day Concluding Senior Officials Meeting (CSOM).

The Government of Việt Nam has implemented numerous concrete measures to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh said at a seminar in the Philippines yesterday.