Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivered a speech titled
“US-Vietnam relations in a changing world” at the Washington D.C.-based
Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on July 8 (local
time).
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) - the main
opposition party in Indonesia - came first in the country’s legislative
election, which concluded on April 9, with around 19 percent of the
vote.
ASEAN-led free trade agreements (FTAs) have been generally underused by
the region’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) although there
are currently 92 FTAs involving the association and its member states
(AMSs).
President Truong Tan Sang highlighted the Vietnam-US relationship in a
dynamic and prosperous Asia Pacific in his remarks delivered at the
Centre of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on July 25 during
his official visit to the US.
President Sang’s visit to the US and the upcoming establishment of a
comprehensive partnership between the two countries have received much
attention from international observers.
President Truong Tan Sang on July 25 met the President pro-tempore of
the US Senate Patrick Leahy, as part of his visit to the US at the
invitation of President Barack Obama.
An international conference on marine security in Southeast Asia was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 30 with the participation of scholars, analysts and defence experts from the US, the UK, New Zealand, Japan, India, China and the ASEAN member countries.
Two United States senators on June 13 introduced a resolution
condemning the repeated use of force by China in the East Sea on
May 26 and June 9 and causing damage to Vietnamese exploration ships
operating within Vietnam ’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic
zone.
The US Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has named
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as Southeast Asia Person of
the Year for 2010.
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