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Below are the top 10 world events of 2019 voted for by the Vietnam News Agency.

A high-ranking delegation from Vietnam led by Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh is attending the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, that opened on January 21.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is committed to helping Vietnam work towards realizing its goal on reducing greenhouse emissions, experts from the agency said at a workshop on January 7.

Below are the top 10 world events of 2019 voted for by the Vietnam News Agency.

Below are the top 10 world events of 2019 voted by the Vietnam News Agency.

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam was ranked fourth in Southeast Asia and 54th worldwide on the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) index in 2019.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh raised some proposals to help the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) enhance its role in fostering multilateral cooperation, while addressing the 14th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Madrid on December 16.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has called on countries to speed up global governance reform, firstly multilateral institutions, in order to effectively deal with global issues.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung on October 28 expressed his support for the issuance of the Hanoi Declaration at the 12th Intergovernmental Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum in Asia that is underway in Hanoi from October 28-30.

The 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting issued a joint communiqué in Bangkok on July 31.

Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has urged the Vietnam-France and France-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Groups to increase exchanges for better mutual understanding of each other’s country and people.

The 14th G20 Summit wrapped up on June 29 in Osaka, Japan, with the adoption of a declaration.

Women’s rights and climate change were the focus of a discussion within the framework of the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on June 28.

A conference on how to enhance cooperation in protecting the Mekong River via smarter water energy planning approaches and wide application of renewable energy throughout the Mekong region was held in Hanoi on June 28.

A conference themed “Just Energy Transition: From Research to Practice” was held in Hanoi on June 26 to share research results in just energy transition in Vietnam and share international experience in this issue.

The municipal festival of France’s Choisy-le-Roi city, which highlighted Vietnam as this year’s theme, took place along the bank of the Seine River last weekend, attracting about 15,000 visitors.

A workshop held in Hanoi on May 9 highlighted the need to adjust the Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC) to better suit the current situation.

The textile and garment industry, aiming to take advantage of free trade agreements (FTAs) with a focus on green manufacturing, is upbeat about earning 60 billion USD from exports by 2025.

Vietnam and the Netherlands have issued a joint statement on the official visit to Vietnam by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on April 9 at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Vietnam has joined countries’ call for UN agencies, including the UN Security Council, to coordinate and help countries and regional organisations in dealing with climate change at an open debate of the UN Security Council on January 25.