Ahead of Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung’s official visit to Laos on October 8-9, the Lao National News Agency (KPL) on October 7 published a front-page editorial highlighting the significance and importance of the special Vietnam–Laos relationship in the new era.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung’s official visit to Laos on October 8–9 is expected to give fresh momentum to the “great friendship, special solidarity, comprehensive cooperation and strategic cohesion” between the two countries, with stronger economic connectivity emerging as a key driver of future development.

Vietnam attaches importance to its traditional friendship and multifaceted cooperation with Panama, regarding it as a key partner in Latin America, said National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man.

Vietnam and Panama on October 7 issued a Joint Statement on the occasion of the official visit to Vietnam by Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino Quintero.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has proposed three priorities for inter-parliamentary cooperation, focusing on greater public participation in governance, stronger oversight and accountability, and ensuring that science and technology serve people and help narrow development gaps.

VOV.VN - Tanzania’s National Assembly Speaker Mussa Azzan Zungu has described Vietnam’s socio-economic achievements after 40 years of Doi Moi (Renewal) as a model Tanzania can draw on as it implements its Tanzania Development Vision 2050.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung had a working session with his Panamanian counterpart Javier Eduardo Martínez-Acha Vásquez in Hanoi on October 7, with both sides emphasizing the effective realization of high-level commitments made during the ongoing official visit of Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino Quintero from October 5 to 8.

Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongsavan Phomvihane has affirmed that Prime Minister Le Minh Hung’s upcoming official visit to Laos is of immense historical significance and particularly important to the development of the special relationship between the two countries.

The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations under the Ministry of National Defence held a ceremony on October 7 to pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh and report on the achievements of officers and staff of Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 7.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Le Minh Hung and Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino have agreed to strengthen transport, logistics, and supply chain connectivity to more closely link the two economies, with Panama offering its canal, port infrastructure, and global logistics network to help Vietnam access markets and supply chains across the Americas.

Vietnam’s relations with Laos and Cambodia have both developed positively, delivering substantive and effective results across various fields, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cuong has said.

VOV.VN - The visit will be an important milestone to turn political trust between Vietnam and Cambodia into concrete strategies, commitments, and actions, while establishing foundations to promote an increasingly close-knit and comprehensive economic integration ecosystem.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung’s official visit to Laos from October 8-9 will concretise “strategic cohesion” as a guiding principle in Vietnam–Laos relations, Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Minh Tam has said.

The Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on October 6 issued a press release saying that Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung will pay an official visit to Cambodia from October 9-10 at the invitation of his Cambodian counterpart Hun Manet.

VOV.VN - National Assembly Vice President Nguyen Hong Dien, member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee on October 5 led a high-level delegation of the National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam to attend the 153rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-153) in Arusha, Tanzania, and held bilateral meetings with leaders of governments and parliaments from various nations.

VOV.VN - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Centra Committee and President To Lam and his spouse hosted a welcome banquet for Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino and his spouse in Hanoi on October 6, during the latter’s official visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Panama will enhance strategic cooperation, particularly in trade, investment, agriculture, transport and logistics, while leveraging their respective positions to strengthen connectivity between Southeast Asia and Latin America.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Panama will tap their respective economic and geographic advantages to expand trade, investment, connectivity and supply-chain links between Southeast Asia and Latin America, their leaders said at a press briefing in Hanoi on October 6.

The relationship between Vietnam and Panama is built not only through high-level diplomacy and cooperation agreements but also through people-to-people exchanges, cultural experiences and everyday encounters that foster mutual understanding and affinity between the two distant countries.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung’s official visit to Cambodia is seen as a significant step in strengthening Cambodia-Vietnam relations, moving from “political trust” to “development momentum” and from “historical proximity” to “strategic closeness.”

Lao Ambassador to Vietnam Khamphao Ernthavanh has highlighted four areas to realise the strategic cohesion between the two countries while granting an interview to the Vietnam News Agency ahead of Prime Minister Le Minh Hung’s upcoming official visit to the neighbouring country.

Member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Party Committee and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Manh Cuong held talks with visiting President of the Hungarian Workers' Party Gyula Thürmer in Hanoi on October 5.

VOV.VN - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President of Vietnam To Lam and his spouse on October 6 hosted a welcoming ceremony for Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino and his spouse, who are paying a four-day official visit to Vietnam from October 5 to 8.

VOV.VN - Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino and his spouse, Maricel Cohen De Mulino, visited the Temple of Literature in Hanoi on October 6 as part of their official visit to Vietnam.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Minh Tam and heads of Vietnamese representative missions in the country on October 5 congratulated Saleumxay Kommasith on his election as Prime Minister of Laos, expressing confidence that bilateral cooperation will continue to grow in a deep, substantive and effective manner.

Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang received Murat Kaya, Vice Chairman of the Board and Co-founder of ICT Group, and Adalat Bakhishov, Chairman of ANVI Group, both from Türkiye, in Hanoi on October 5, discussing ways to strengthen cooperation in security technology and industry.

Politburo Member and Standing Member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Secretariat Tran Cam Tu hosted a reception in Hanoi on October 5 for a delegation of the Hungarian Workers’ Party led by its President Gyula Thürmer, who is on a working trip to Vietnam from October 4-10.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung and President of the National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man sent letters of congratulations to their newly elected Lao counterparts on October 5.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung will lead a high-level Vietnamese delegation on official visits to Laos and Cambodia from October 8 to 10.

Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW on international integration in the new situation calls for improving the quality, effectiveness, synchronisation and depth of international integration, with Vietnam shifting from participation to proactively contributing to, building and shaping cooperation frameworks.