Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
-PresidentVo Van Thuong highly valued the diplomatic sector’s contributions to nationaldefence while attending a conference held in Hanoi on April 6 to review the10-year implementation of the Party Central Committee’s resolution on thestrategy for safeguarding the Fatherland in the new context.
Addressingthe event, President Vo Van Thuong, head of the steering committee for thereview of the resolution implementation, highly valued diplomatic achievementswhich have greatly contributed to national construction and safeguarding,especially in helping maintain a peaceful and stable environment for developingthe country, and protecting independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorialintegrity.Read full text
-Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 6 received Russian Deputy PM DmitryChernyshenko, who is in Vietnam for an official visit and to co-chair the 24thsession of the Vietnam-Russia Inter-governmental Committee for economic, tradeand scientific-technical cooperation.
Thehost leader affirmed Vietnam’s consistent foreign policy of independence,multilateralisation and diversification of external relations, being a goodfriend and trustworthy partner of countries, and being a responsible member ofthe international community, stressing that Vietnam does not choose sides butchoose justice and reason.Read full text
-Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha and his Russian counterpart DmitryChernyshenko co-chaired the 24th meeting of the countries’ Inter-GovernmentalCommittee on Economic, Trade and Scientific-Technological Cooperation in Hanoion April 6.
Thetwo sides agreed to effectively implement the free trade agreement betweenVietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union, creating favourable market accessconditions for each other, especially concerning their products with strengthsand without direct competition.Read full text
-Ahigh-ranking delegation of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) led byMinister Gen. To Lam had talks with Prosecutor General of the Republic of Korea(RoK)’s Supreme Prosecutors’ Office (SPO) Lee Won-seok in Seoul on April 6.
Lamstressed that Vietnam always views the RoK as one of its important andlong-term partners, highly valuing the progress in multiple aspects of the twocountries’ comprehensive strategic partnership.Read full text
- Deputy spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry Pham Thu Hang on April 6 affirmedVietnam’s consistent viewpoint that activities in the East Sea must strictlycomply with international law while commenting on the report that Chinesevessel Haiyang Dizhi 4 recently operated in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone.
Addressingthe ministry’s regular press briefing, she stressed that such activities mustalso respect Vietnam's sovereign right and jurisdiction over the sea areasestablished in line with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of theSea (UNCLOS).Read full text
-Alsoat the press briefing, the deputy spokeswoman affirmed Vietnam’s determinationto fight illegal migration while responding to the report that seven of the 20bodies found on the coast of Taiwan (China) carried Vietnamese personal papersand were victims of human trafficking.
Shenoted the Consular Department and the Economic and Cultural Office of Vietnamin Taipei have been coordinating closely with Taiwanese authorities, keeping aclose watch on the case, and assisting relatives of the persons reportedlymissing to carry out identification and handle funeral affairs.Read full text
-The Foreign Ministry’s deputy spokeswoman clarified Vietnam’s viewpoint on thereport that a documentary film about the search for the missing aircraft codedMH370 of Malaysia contains inaccurate content saying Vietnam did not cooperateto help with the search.
Replying to the Vietnam News Agency’s question atthe ministry’s regular press conference on April 6, Hang said that as soon asMalaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014, relevant agenciesof Vietnam promptly and proactively made response plans, actively sharedinformation, and coordinated with the Malaysian side as well as other countrieswishing to conduct search and rescue on a large scale, while assisting foreignreporters in covering the case.Read full text
-The Ministry of Information and Communications will conduct an inspection ofTikTok in May to ensure the cross-border platform's law compliance during itsoperation in Vietnam.
Atits press conference in Hanoi on April 6, the ministry made public violationsof TikTok, which entered the country in 2019.Read full text
-The Narcotics Investigation Police Department under the Ministry of PublicSecurity held a meeting in Hanoi on April 6 to review the operation of the SafeMekong Coordination Centre (SMCC), which has been set up in all countries inthe Mekong sub-region as part of their joint efforts to fight drug trafficking.
Addressingthe event, Major General Nguyen Van Vien, head of the department said thatcountries in the Mekong sub-region are working hard together to fight drugcrimes.Read full text
- Vietnam moved one place to rank 95th globally on the FIFA men’s worldrankings for March.
In Asia, Vietnam ranked 16th, also up one placefrom the previous month, and maintained the No 1 position in Southeast Asia.Read full text/.
