The government and people of Vietnam have done excellent preparation for APEC 2017 and Papua New Guinea wants to learn from Vietnam, said Rimbink Pato Obe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Papua New Guinea, host of APEC 2018.
Rasmei Kampuchea, a daily Cambodian newspaper in Khmer language, published an article on November 5, analysing Vietnam’s role as the host of the APEC Year 2017.
Hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum for a second time shows that Vietnam is an active and responsible member of the group, making effective contributions to APEC’s development after 19 years of membership.
The Philippines has pulled out of hosting the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, as its Government decided to use the sport funding for re-building conflict-hit areas in Marawi.
Tsutomu Koizumi, head of Japan’s delegation to the first APEC Senior Officials’ Meetings (SOM1) held in Hanoi in February 2017, has highly valued Vietnam’s efforts in hosting the forum’s meetings.
Hosting APEC events in 2017 demonstrates the strategic diplomatic vision and growing stature of Vietnam, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.
The People’s Committee of Da Nang City, which is scheduled to host major activities of the APEC Year 2017, has instructed accelerating preparations for the event to ensure the pace of key projects.
Vietnam’s hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in 2017 is a good chance for the country to promote the image of a dynamic country in reform and international integration.
David Haggerty, President of the International Tennis Federation (ITF), has said that Vietnam has the capacity to successfully organise the ITF Congress 2017 in August.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has affirmed that hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Year 2017 is a priority in Vietnam’s external policy with an aim of strengthening the country’s international integration and enhancing multilateral external relations.
Hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Year in 2017 is the centre of Vietnam’s external activities, demonstrating the country’s desire to contribute to APEC and regional development.
Hosting APEC Year in 2017 is one of the key diplomatic activities for Vietnam in line with its policy on promoting comprehensive international integration and multi-lateral external relations.
Hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in 2017 is a
step to concretise Vietnam’s extensive international integration policy,
Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh told the press following the debut
of the APEC 2017 National Committee in Hanoi on July 21.
Minh, who is also the Committee Chairman, said the APEC forum is a
regional and global leading economic cooperation mechanism, and it holds
a strategic importance in both political and economic terms to Vietnam.
Hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in 2017 is a
lynchpin of Vietnam’s foreign policy towards 2020, reflecting the
country’s best possible contributions to promoting shared interests
within APEC in the evolving regional landscape, stated Deputy Prime
Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.
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