In the common development of ASEAN, Vietnam has been evaluated as one of the most active members with significant contributions to the bloc's activities.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc recently approved a plan to enhance communications about Vietnam’s international integration through major events from 2017 to 2020.
A mid-term review conference on Project 161 – which looks to implement and achieve the goals laid out by the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community until 2025 – in the central region took place in Da Nang city on July 23.
Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung asserted Vietnam's commitment to extensively and practically accelerate the ASEAN+3 and EAS cooperation mechanisms at related meetings and in Singapore on August 1.
Vietnam has actively got involved in the realisation of ASEAN commitments since the country joined the association on July 28, 1995, according Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung.