The relationship between Vietnam - Italy has recorded strong and fruitful development across sectors with a "vibrant vitality" after more than 50 years of establishing diplomatic ties based on the solid foundation of a traditional, sincere and warm friendship, Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Duong Hai Hung has stated.

VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man held a meeting with Lao Party General Secretary and President Thongloun Sisoulith on September 11 in Hanoi within the framework of the latter's state visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Business leaders of the United States have given positive comments one year after the two countries moved to upgrade their diplomatic relations to that of a comprehensive strategic partnership for peace, co-operation, and sustainable development.

The Pathet Lao newspaper and the e-newspaper of the Lao News Agency (KPL) on September 10 ran an article praising the Vietnam-Laos relationship.

VOV.VN - The country backs every effort in helping United Nations peacekeeping operations become more effective and adaptive, said Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN at a UN Security Council open debate themed “Strengthening UN Peacekeeping: Reflections for the Future” in New York on September 10.

VOV.VN - General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith, his wife, and a high-ranking Laotian delegation laid a wreath at President Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum in Hanoi on the morning of September 11 to pay tribute to the national leader of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Irish President Michael D. Higgins has expressed his appreciation for Vietnam's growing role and prestige in the region and around the world, especially its contribution to maintaining a peaceful and stable environment in the region, as well as the cohesion and centrality of ASEAN in numerous important issues.

A joint statement was issued at the end of the third session of the Vietnam - Russia Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Committee co-chaired by NA Chairman Tran Thanh Man and Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Victorovich Volodin in Moscow on September 9.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man had a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on September 10 as part of his official visit to Russia.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Do Van Chien welcomed a delegation of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation led by its Vice Chairman Alexander Shkolnik in Hanoi on September 10.