Legislators are debating the draft resolutions on exclusive policies and mechanisms for the development of Hai Phong city, and Nghe An, Thanh Hoa and Thua Thien-Hue provinces on October 27 morning via videoconference during the second session of the 15th National Assembly.

Foreign representative agencies in Vietnam were updated on the country’s consular policy at a meeting held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 26.

The 38th and 39th Summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and related meetings opened on October 26 under the chairmanship of Brunei – the country holding ASEAN chair in 2021.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended five conferences on October 26, the first working day of the 8th and 39th ASEAN Summits and related Summits from October 26-28.

Lawmakers discussed the draft Law on Mobile Police via videoconference during the second session of the 15th National Assembly on October 26 morning.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his UK counterpart Boris Johnson agreed that Vietnam and the UK will recognise each other's “vaccine passports” early during their online talks on October 26.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the 24th ASEAN-China Summit, which was held virtually on October 26 within the framework of the ongoing 38th and 39th ASEAN Summits and related meetings.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should play a more active, proactive and responsible role in all issues impacting on the region, thus helping the ten-member bloc to maintain its centrality, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at the 39th ASEAN Summit, which was held virtually on October 26.

Vietnam is committed to doing its best in the coordinating role for the ASEAN-RoK partnership in the next three years on the basis of the sound and long-standing Vietnam-RoK relations, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said during the 22nd ASEAN-RoK Summit held virtually on October 26.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh proposed two key tasks that ASEAN should focus on doing in the time to come during the ongoing 38th ASEAN Summit on October 26.

On the occasion of Austria’s National Day on October 26, National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue sent a congratulatory message to President of the Federal Council Christian Buchmann and President of the Austrian National Council Wolfgang Sobotka.

The National Assembly is scheduled to discuss the draft Law on Mobile Police and the draft Law amending and supplementing several articles of the Law on Intelligence Property during its ongoing second plenary session on October 26.

Deputy Defence Minister Hoang Xuan Chien, who is also head of the Ministry of National Defence's steering committee for the participation in UN peacekeeping operations, has recently inspected how members of military engineer unit No. 1 were preparing for UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue assessed that in the first six working days of its second session, the National Assembly (NA) had basically completed the proposed programme.