US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper affirmed the US has attached importance to its comprehensive partnership with Vietnam while delivering a speech at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam in Hanoi on November 20.
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu and Permanent Secretary of the Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs Soe Han co-chaired the eighth annual political consultation at the deputy ministerial level in Hanoi on November 14.
It is necessary to maintain and respect international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), in the settlement of disputes in the East Sea, Swiss lawyer Pierre Schifferli has said.
Vietnam should make greater efforts to get stronger support from the international community in the South China Sea (called the East Sea in Vietnam) issues and hold more activities similar to South China Sea International Conferences, a leading foreign expert has suggested.
“Cooperation for regional security and development” was the topic of the 11th South China Sea International Conference which opened in the capital city of Hanoi on November 6.
Russia’s “Multipolar world” newspaper has run an article saying many countries, including partners in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), support Vietnam’s viewpoint in addressing the East Sea issues.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the plenary meeting of the 35th summit of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and related meetings in Bangkok in the afternoon of November 2.
The National Assembly Standing Committee spent the whole day discussing reports evaluating the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and State budget in 2019 during the ongoing 38th session in Hanoi on October 15.
The high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly led by Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has actively contributed to the success of the 40th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA 40) in Thailand, said head of the Vietnamese National Assembly's external relations committe Nguyen Van Giau.
A commentator has highlighted the flourishing relationship between Russia and Vietnam in an analysis published by Russia’s Realist news agency on August 12.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has affirmed Vietnam’s commitment to coordinating with Japan and other Mekong countries in implementing the Tokyo Strategy 2018 for Mekong-Japan Cooperation.
Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of Vietnam’s ASEAN senior officials’ meeting delegation, gave an interview to the media about the outcomes of the just-concluded 34th ASEAN Summit in Bangkok.
Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Phan Van Giang had meetings with senior military officers of Russia and the Philippines on the sidelines of the eighth Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS-8) on April 24.
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan held talks with Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Binali Yildirim in Ankara capital city on October 11 as part of the Vietnamese leader’s official visit to Turkey.
Vietnam and Japan will closely cooperate with each other to bring forward their extensive strategic partnership for peace and prosperity in Asia into a new period of more comprehensive and pragmatic development, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held talks in Hanoi on September 13 with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono on the occasion of the latter’s participation in the World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) 2018. The talks followed the 10th session of the Vietnam – Japan Cooperation Committee co-chaired by the two.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 11 said he is happy at the rapid, practical and comprehensive development of the Vietnam – Japan relations, stressing that the pushing up of the recent exchanges of high-level delegations has helped strengthen bilateral trust.
National Assembly Vice Chairman Phung Quoc Hien received a delegation of Australian parliamentarians led by Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on the Parliamentary Library Rowan Ramsay in Hanoi on July 16.
Vietnam will provide all means for the enhancement of the Vietnam–Canada defence cooperation, President Tran Dai Quang told visiting Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan during their meeting in Hanoi on June 5.
Japanese media on une 1 covered the talks between President Tran Dai Quang and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a day ago, highlighting the agreements reached in multiple key areas.
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