Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is scheduled to leave Hanoi on October8 afternoon for Brunei’s capital Bandar Seri Begawan to attend the 23rdASEAN Summit and related meetings at the invitation of Sultan HassanalBolkiah.
The PM is accompanied by Foreign Minister Pham BinhMinh, Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang, Deputy ForeignMinister and Head of the Vietnam ASEAN senior official meeting (SOM)delegation Pham Quang Minh and other officials.
The meetings, totake place over three days, are taking place at a time when ASEAN isdetermined to step up the process of building the ASEAN Community andregional connectivity with a focus on the people.
ASEAN hasrecorded a number of important achievements, with strengthenedsolidarity in the group, enhanced and deepened external relations andelevated role and voice in common important issues in the region.
However, the organisation is facing some challenges, especially inensuring the community building progress, setting up a vision for thebloc beyond 2015 and solving issues in the region in a harmoniousmanner.
Vietnam’s delegation participate in the meeting with theresolve to join hands with other ASEAN members and the ASEAN Chair tofurther strengthen ASEAN’s central role in the evolving regionalarchitecture and build a regional environment of peace, security,stability, cooperation and development while boosting the country’sbilateral ties with its partners.-VNA