VOV.VN - Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and State President, will pay an official visit to Vietnam next week.

VOV.VN - Vietnam considers the Republic of Korea (RoK) as an important, long-term partner and one of the top priority partners in its foreign policy, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue told Park Byung-seug, Speaker of the RoK National Assembly during their online talks on June 23.

Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organisation, and other international organisations in Geneva, attended the opening ceremony of the UN Human Rights Council’s 47th session, which is taking place from June 21 to July 15.

Vietnam has condemned attacks targeting civilians and civilian objects in Afghanistan at a UN Security Council’s virtual meeting on the Afghanistan situation on June 22.

Hanoi wants to step up technology transfer and experience sharing with Singapore, Secretary of the municipal Party’s Committee Dinh Tien Dung told Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivan Balakrishnan during their meeting in Hanoi on June 22.

The Asia - Europe cooperation will be indispensable and increasingly important in the future, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu said about the significance of the Asia - Europe Meeting (ASEM) High-level Policy Dialogue held on June 22.

VOV.VN - Deputy Defense Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Le Huy Vinh on June 23 received Anatoly Chuprynov, Chief Representative of the Russian Federal Service for Technical-Military Cooperation to Vietnam.

Chairman of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung received Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of the external relations commission of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) of Singapore, in Hanoi on June 22.

Minister of Public Security General To Lam on June 22 said cooperation between his ministry and the UK’s law enforcement agencies has been consolidated and enhance on the basis of the development of the Vietnam-UK strategic partnership​.

The Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Task Force convened its 64th meeting via videoconference on June 22 under the chair of Ambassador Nguyen Hai Bang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to ASEAN and Chair of the Task Force in 2021.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 22 suggested Germany create favourable conditions for Vietnam to early access vaccine supplies and transfer vaccine production technology to the Southeast Asian nation.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged Vietnam and the UK to continue deepening their bilateral strategic partnership to meet the interests of the two countries and contribute to regional and world peace, stability and cooperation.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has proposed the UK Government further facilitate Vietnam's access to COVID-19 vaccine supplies and consider transferring its vaccine production technology to the Southeast Asian nation.

VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has suggested that the UK continue to support Vietnam in accessing supplies and consider transferring technology for COVID-19 vaccine production in the spirit of both side’s strategic partnership.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has praised both nations for working hand in hand to soon establish and hold meetings between their working groups on COVID-19 response towards a mutual recognition of each other’s vaccination certificates.

VOV.VN - Over the last 25 years, Vietnam has always served as a proactive, dynamic, and responsible member of the Asia - Europe Meeting (ASEM) following its participation in the organization since 1996.

Deputy Foreign Minister and head of the Vietnam ASEAN SOM Nguyen Quoc Dung on June 21 attended the ASEAN Senior Officials' Meeting (ASEAN SOM) and a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty Commission, which were hosted virtually by Brunei.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and State President, while receiving Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan in Hanoi o June 21, voiced Vietnam’s commitment to facilitating Singaporean business operations in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Dominic Raab, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom, arrived in Hanoi on June 21 evening as part of his Southeast Asia tour.

VOV.VN - Vietnam always considers Japan as an extensive, important and long-term strategic partner in its foreign policy, and wants to boost this extensive strategic partnership with Japan, says National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

VOV.VN - Singapore is willing to strengthen co-operation with Vietnam in a wide range of areas, including accessing COVID-19 vaccines and mutual recognition of vaccine certification.

VOV.VN - The new Argentinian Ambassador to Vietnam, Luis Pablo Maria Beltramino, has expressed his nation’s wish to upgrade its relations with Vietnam to a strategic partnership, especially when both countries are gearing up for the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic ties in 2023.

VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and re-appointed UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres have affirmed their recognition of the importance to and expressed their elation at the positive developments of the Vietnam-UN relationship over the past time during their online phone talks on June 19.

The upgrading of ties between New Zealand and Vietnam into a strategic partnership in July 2020 is an important milestone in the bilateral relationship, said Tredene Cherie Dobson, newly-accredited Ambassador of New Zealand to Vietnam.

Vietnam’s successful treatment of a UN employee who contracted COVID-19 has marked a new step of development in the cooperation between the two sides, while proving the country’s important role in the regional and international arena, said UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Kamal Malhotra.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung suggested ASEAN soon finalise a travel corridor arrangement framework while addressing the ASEAN Joint Consultative Meeting (JCM) on June 17.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on June 17 suggested that the World Health Organisation (WHO) help facilitate the delivery of COVAX Facility – sponsored COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam amid the complex nature of the pandemic locally.

VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said Li Zhanshu, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, has invited him to visit China at an appropriate time, during their phone talks on June 17.

Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, has told a UNSC meeting that the most important factor in fighting terrorism today is to unite, intensify international cooperation and support countries to strengthen their capacity of combating international terrorism.

The Vietnam People’s Navy and the Royal Cambodian Navy co-organised the 63rd annual joint maritime patrol on June 14-15.