☕ Afternoon briefing on September 22

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a briefreview of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.

- Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) VuongDinh Hue received Muhammad Faruk Khan, Chairman of the Bangladesh ParliamentaryStanding Committee on Foreign Relations, and gave an important speech at theForeign Service Academy of Bangladesh in Dhaka on September 21.

Expressing his honour to welcome the NA leader andthe Vietnamese delegation on an official visit to Bangladesh, Muhammad FarukKhan said the trip will continue helping to intensify the traditionalfriendship between the two countries.

|- National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue’s upcomingofficial visit to Bulgaria is expected to help consolidate and enhance time-testedfriendship and multifaceted cooperation between the two countries in generaland the two parliaments in particular.

Hue’s trip is made 15 years after the visit to theEuropean country by then NA Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong in 2008. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with Secretary-General of theUnited Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres at the UN headquarters in New York onSeptember 21 afternoon (US time), on the sidelines of the high-level week ofthe 78th session of the UN General Assembly.

During the meeting, PM Chinh spoke highly of the roles andcontributions of the Secretary General and the UN to international peace,stability and security, and to the settlement of hot issues while affirmingthat Vietnam always supports and is ready to contribute to those efforts. Read full story

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh rings the bell to open a trading session at the NYSE on September 21 morning (US time) (Photo: VNA)

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh rang the bell to open atrading session at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on September 21 morning(US time) while visiting the world largest stock exchange.

At a brief meeting with NYSE Vice Chairman JohnTuttle before the ceremony, PM Chinh expressed his impression at the NYSEcapitalisation scale at 40 trillion USD. Read full story

- Prime Minister PhamMinh Chinh hosted separate receptions in New York on September 21 for leadersof several US corporations as part of his trip to attend the high-level week ofthe UN General Assembly’s 78th session.

During separate meetings with representatives from Apple Inc.,Boeing Company, Google, Siemens Healthineers, the PM reiterated his commitmentto create favourable conditions for US enterprises to operate effectivebusiness in Vietnam. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who is in the US for thehigh-level week of the UN General Assembly’s 78th session, had a seminar and aworking dinner with leaders of multinational businesses and leading USinvestment funds in New York on September 21 (local time).

At the seminar, leaders of businesses andinvestment funds as well as Vietnamese State management agencies discussedmeasures and orientations to attract more financial resources forsocio-economic development, especially the building and development of financialcentres in Vietnam. Read full story

- Vietnam’s permanent delegation in Geneva on September 20organised an international seminar on promoting the right to immunisation, anddelivered a joint statement co-sponsored by many countries on this topic withinthe framework of the 54th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC).

Vietnam, Brazil and the Global Alliance forVaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) jointly organised the seminar with theparticipation of representatives from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Read full story

- Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and his Tongancounterpart Fekitamoeloa Utoikamanu witnessed the signing of the JointCommuniqué on the establishment of Vietnam-Tonga diplomatic ties by the twoambassadors - heads of the missions of the two countries to the United Nations,in New York on September 21 (local time).

With this move, Vietnam has so far formeddiplomatic ties with 193 countries globally. Read full story

- A delegation from the State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV), ledby Deputy Auditor General Nguyen Tuan Anh, attended the 59th meeting of theGoverning Board of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions(ASOSAI) in Busan city, the Republic of Korea (RoK) from September 19-22.

The event was co-chaired by the State Audit Office (SAO) ofThailand as the Chair of ASOSAI and the National Audit Office of China as theSecretary General of ASOSAI. The SAV attended the event in its capacity as amember of the ASOSAI Governing Board for the 2021-2024 tenure. Read full story
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- The 16th Conference of ASEAN Ministers Responsible forInformation (AMRI-16) opened in the central city of Da Nang on September 22.

The conference, which will close on September 23,attracts the participation of representatives from nine ASEAN member states,Timor-Leste as an observer, and three partners of Japan, the Republic of Koreaand China, under the theme “Media: From Information to Knowledge for aResilient and Responsive ASEAN”. Read full story

The Vietnamese rowing team continued to gain victory in the play-off round at the 19th Asian Games. (Photo: VNA)

- The Vietnamese rowing team continued to gain victory in theplay-off round at the 19th Asian Games (ASIAD 19) in China on September 21.

Ho Thi Duy excellently finished first in thewomen’s heavyweight single scull with a time of 8m34s52. She will compete inthe semi-finals alongside Chae Sehyon from the Republic of Korea and AlmamyHaya Muhamad from Saudi Arabia./. Read full story

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