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☀️ Morning digest January 5

The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
☀️ Morning digest January 5 ảnh 1

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

-Politburo member, President Vo Van Thuong, who is Chairman of the Councilof National Defence and Security, on January 4 chaired the 4th meeting of thecouncil.

☀️ Morning digest January 5 ảnh 2Politburo member, President Vo Van Thuong chairs the 4th meeting of the Council of National Defence and Security. (Photo: VNA)

Themeeting also saw the attendance of Politburo members: Prime Minister Pham MinhChinh - Vice Chairman of the Council, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue- Member of the Council, Minister of Public Security Gen. To Lam - Member ofthe Council, and Minister of National Defence Gen. Phan Van Giang - Member ofthe Council, among others. Read full story

 - NationalAssembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue extended a warm welcome to Vice President ofthe Lao legislature Chaleun Yiapaoher, the first foreign guest to visit theVietnamese NA in the new year of 2024, during a reception in Hanoi on January 4.

☀️ Morning digest January 5 ảnh 3NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (R) and Vice President of the Lao NA Chaleun Yiapaoher. (Photo: VNA)

Chairman Hue congratulated the Lao NationalAssembly on successfully holding the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) ParliamentarySummit in December 2023, saying the event's success marked the important roleof the Lao legislature in the cooperation mechanism among the parliaments ofthe three countries as well as in the region. Read full story

- National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairman Nguyen Khac Dinh onJanuary 4 held talks with his Lao counterpart Chaleun Yiapaoher in Hanoi.

☀️ Morning digest January 5 ảnh 4National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Khac Dinh on January 4 holds talks with his Lao counterpart Chaleun Yiapaoher. (Photo: VNA)

Welcoming the Lao official and a Lao delegation toVietnam, Dinh stressed that the regular exchange of delegations to shareexperience and attend workshops from committees and agencies of theVietnamese and Lao legislatures has helped deepen their cooperation and showedthe trust and bond between the two NAs. Read full story

- Amid numerous difficulties and uncertainties in the globalsituation last year, Vietnam has obtained significant results, makingbreakthroughs and historic achievements. These have become a “highly impressivebright spot” in the country’s achievements over the last more than half of the13th National Party Congress as assessed by Party General Secretary Nguyen PhuTrong.

Le Hoai Trung, Secretary of the Party CentralCommittee and Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for ExternalRelations, made the comment in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agencyon the outstanding achievements in 2023 and orientations for foreign affairs in2024. Read full story

- General Secretary of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA)and Chairman of the NA Office Bui Van Cuong had a working session in Hanoi onJanuary 4 with Vice President of the Lao legislature Chaleun Yiapaoher ondocuments on the NA history as well as the relationship between the twolegislative bodies.

Cuong said that Vietnamese NA leaders appreciatethe Vietnam visit by Chaleun Yiapaoher, and consider it a vivid manifestationof the Vietnam-Laos great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensivecooperation. Read full story

-Vietnam strongly condemned the bombing in Kerman city in Southeastern Iran onJanuary 3, which claimed hundreds of lives and injuries, Spokeswoman of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang has said. 

Hangmade the comment on January 4 while answering to a reporter's query onVietnam's response to the bombing. Read full story

- Ambassador Do Hoang Long, representing Vietnam in Bulgaria,emphasised the significance of the upcoming official visit to Vietnam bySpeaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria Rosen Dimitrov Jeliazkov fromJanuary 5-9, during an exclusive interview recently granted to the Vietnam NewsAgency.

Ambassador Long underscored that this marks thefirst visit by a high-ranking Bulgarian leader to Vietnam in over a decade,following Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev's visit in October 2013.Notably, it is deemed a reciprocal visit following the official Bulgaria visitby Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue in Septemberlast year. Read full story

- Economists at a workshop in Hanoi on January 4 sharedthe view that despite a host of difficulties forecast for 2024, inflation wouldnot be a big issue for Vietnam in the year.

Speaking at the workshop, jointly held by theInstitute of Economics and Finance under the Academy of Finance and the PriceManagement Department at the Ministry of Finance, Deputy Director of theInstitute Nguyen Duc Do explained that the world economy, especially the US andChina, is expected to slow this year./. Read full story

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