Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son met with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov in Vientiane, Laos, on October 10 on the occasion of their attendance at the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on August 2 hosted a reception for Tokai Kisaburo, member of the House of Representative and Chairperson of the Policy Research Council under the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan, who is paying a visit to Vietnam from July 31 to August 2.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and his visiting counterpart from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan highlighted ample room for the nations to further beef up their cooperation during their talks in Hanoi on June 14.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on February 14 said that Vietnam always attaches importance to the friendship and multifaceted cooperative relations with El Salvador when receiving the Central America country’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco, who is paying an official visit to Vietnam from February 14-16.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son talked over phone with his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Al Busaidi on June 22 after Vietnam and Oman celebrated the 30th anniversary of their diplomatic ties (June 9).
Foreign Ministers of Laos and Singapore, Saleumxay Kommasith and Vivian Balakrishnan, will pay official visits to Cambodia and attend the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat (AMM Retreat) in Phnom Penh from February 15 – 17 at the invitation of their Cambodian counterpart Prak Sokhonn.
Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son, as the coordinator of ASEAN-Japan relations, co-chaired the ASEAN-Japan Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held via videoconference on August 3 together with his Japanese counterpart Motegi Toshimitsu.
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son received in Jakarta on April 24 Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General on Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener.
Newly-elected Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented to the 14th National Assembly a list of nominees for 14 positions, including two deputy prime ministers and 11 ministers, for his new cabinet on April 7 at the ongoing 11th session of the legislature.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh sent a message of condolences to State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi on August 15 over the huge human and property losses in the eastern part of China caused by Typhoon Lekima.
An incense offering ceremony to commemorate the 112th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, a prominent leader of Vietnam’s revolution in the 20th century, was held at his memorial site in Mo Duc district, the central province of Quang Ngai on March 1.
The Government of Bangladesh announced on November 23 that its country and the neighbouring Myanmar have agreed on returning Rohingya Muslim refugees in two months.
Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh met with Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Brunei Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng in the central city of Da Nang on November 9.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held separate meetings with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Director of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Philipp Roesler.
The Government and people of Vietnam always attach importance to maintaining and strengthening traditional relations with Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said.
Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh met with his counterparts from New Zealand, the US, China and the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on August 7
Vietnam will work with Japan and Mekong nations to implement the 2015 Tokyo Strategy on Mekong-Japan cooperation and the Mekong-Japan Action Plan for Realisation of the New Tokyo Strategy for 2016-18.
Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh had bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, and Laos in the Philippines, on August 5.
