PM delivers message at G7 expanded Summit’s first plenary session

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 20 stressed that promoting a more substantive and effective global partnership, international solidarity, and multilateral cooperation is key to solving today's complex challenges.
PM delivers message at G7 expanded Summit’s first plenary session ảnh 1At the event (Photo: VNA)
Hiroshima (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 20 stressed that promoting a more substantive and effective globalpartnership, international solidarity, and multilateral cooperation is keyto solving today's complex challenges.
In his remarks at the first plenary sessionof the expanded Summit of the Group of Seven (G7) in Hiroshima, Japan, the PM noted it is necessary to ensure thatpeople are the centre, driving force, subject, resource and goal ofdevelopment.

He held that the current unprecedented context calls for actions going beyond theprecedents with a global, inclusive and multilateral approach, and emphasised anurgent need for promoting and creating new driving forces serving the recoveryof the global economic growth and development in a greener, cleaner and moresustainable direction.

PM Chinh proposed improving the global economic governance efficiency;strengthening policy coordination, particularly in interest rates,finance-currency, trade-investment; and reforming a World Trade Organization-centredmultilateral trading system.
Welcoming the Partnership for GlobalInfrastructure and Investment (PGII) initiative, he suggested that G7 continueto support developing countries through the provision of green finance andcooperation in developing strategic infrastructure systems, especially for transport.

Chinh affirmed that Vietnam highly values the HiroshimaAction Statement for Resilient Global Food Security, and proposed G7 and itspartners step up the opening of agricultural markets, promote greenagricultural cooperation, increase their participation in and support for theimplementation of the South-South and trilateral cooperation mechanisms in ensuringthe global food security.
Vietnam is ready to scale up food production contributingto the conduction of the action statement, the leader said.

In the spirit of leaving no one and no country behind, Chinh called on the G7countries and development partners to have a specific action plan to strengthenresources support for the implementation of the SDGs, narrow the digital gap, master pioneering technologies, ensure transboundary water security,enforce gender equality, and develop effective mechanisms in response to futuremedical emergencies.      

Chinh took the occasion to thank G7 members and the international community forassisting Vietnam in its prevention and control of and recovery after theCOVID-19 pandemic. He stated that Vietnam is always an active and responsiblemember of the international community, proactively contributing to efforts tosolve common global challenges for sustainable development and prosperity ofthe humanity, and for the happiness of the people.

Leaders at the event discussed measures to cope with unprecedented crisis in various areas such as food security, health care and economics-development. They emphasised the need to put development at the centre, promote initiatives to pool resources, boost public-private cooperation in infrastructure development, including the G7's PGII.

They also agreed to strongly implement the Hiroshima Action Statement for Resilient Global Food Security initiated by Japan.
It is the third time Vietnam has been invited to the expanded Summit of the G7 in the past seven years, reflecting the recognition of the G7 countries and the international community of Vietnam's position and reputation, as well as its active and responsible contributions to promoting international cooperation in addressing global challenges over the past years./.
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