VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang and his Lao counterpart Kongthong Phongvichit co-chaired the 14th Vietnam - Laos Security Cooperation Conference on March 19 in the Lao capital of Vientiane.

VOV.VN - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), applauded active Vietnamese contributions to the organisation on March 18, especially the outcomes of the WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) which was held from February 26 to March 2 in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security on March 18 handed over 50 vehicles to the Lao Ministry of Public Security to help it ensure safety for activities held during Laos's Chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year.

Le Hoai Trung, Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and Chairman of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, held talks with Liu Jianchao, Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chairman of the CPC Central Committee’s International Liaison Department, in Jilin province on March 18.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov, who is paying an official visit to Vietnam, in Hanoi on March 18.

Foreign affairs and diplomacy have played a pioneering role in mobilising external resources to serve the country's socio-economic development, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son told a question and answer session at the National Assembly Standing Committee’s 31st sitting on March 18.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held talks in Hanoi on March 18 with his visiting Uzbek counterpart Bakhtiyor Saidov who is on an official visit to Vietnam from March 17-19.

VOV.VN - Alongside many countries around the world, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong has extended congratulations to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is one of the most important partners of Brazil in Southeast Asia, Eduardo Paes Saboia, Secretary for Asia and the Pacific at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, has said at the Vietnam-Brazil meeting recently held by the Vietnamese Embassy in Brasilia.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa and Zimbabwe Hoang Sy Cuong has presented his credential letter to Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.