Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the Congress at the NationalConvention Center in Hanoi on January 27, Hoang Binh Quan, head of the PartyCentral Committee’s Commission for External Relations, said Vietnam will makeefforts to make its bilateral relations more substantive and effective, focusingon increasing political trust.
Currently, the CPV has a resolution to enhance Vietnam's multilateral relationsin a spirit that the country will both actively and proactively engage in multilateralmechanisms and initiatives, he said.
“This is a development step in the foreign policy of the Party and Governmentof Vietnam in the coming term,” he noted.
Regarding the effectiveness of Vietnam’s foreign policy, Quan said that Vietnamhas joined nearly 20 free trade agreements, which means the country’s trade andinvestment space is very large. For a country like Vietnam, with its currentlevel of development, this is a great international integration effort, heaffirmed.
The task for Vietnam now is to better its policy system and infrastructure, especiallydigital facilities, so that it can participate in the world’s playgrounds more confidentlyand practically, he went on.
“Vietnam will make every effort to effectively and responsibly implement its internationalcommitments as well as those to multilateral institutions,” he said, addingthat the country will promote international integration with higher quality totake advantage of international cooperation and support for its renewal cause.
The 13th National Party Congress will last until February 2. With the motto “Solidarity - Democracy -Discipline - Creativeness - Development”, it will review not only theimplementation of the Resolution of the 12th National Party Congress but also35 years of implementing the “Doi Moi” (Renewal) process, 30 years ofimplementing the 1991 Political Platform, 10 years of implementing the amendedPolitical Platform (supplemented and developed in 2011) and the NationalSocio-economic Development Strategy 2011-2020.
The Congress will also set out socio-economic development orientations andtasks for 2021-2025 (the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the South andnational reunification); and determine goals and orientations to 2030 (the100th founding anniversary of the Party) and a vision for national developmentto 2045 (the 100th founding anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam)./.
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