The Embassy of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and the RoK Foundation hosted a reception in Hanoi on December 21, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Vietnam-RoK diplomatic ties. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has affirmed Vietnam’s constant policy of strengthening the reliable friendship, long-lasting tradition and strategic partnership with India. 

(VOV) - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ho Xuan Son has paid a working visit to China’s Guangdong province from December 18–21, attending a conference on bilateral cooperation.

(VOV) - Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on December 21 hailed the positive contributions the media has made to the Party and State’s foreign affairs in 2012.

(VOV) - A delegation representing the Ministry of Public Security led by Minister Tran Dai Quang is paying an official visit to Laos on December 21–22.  

Vietnam and Cambodia need to improve the quality of judicial cooperation, including the exchange of delegations at provincial level, especially between localities in border areas.

(VOV) - Vietnamese ambassador to Italia and Cyprus Nguyen Hoang Long has presented his credentials from State President Truong Tan Sang to Cyprus President Demetris Christofias.    

Vietnam will actively contribute to boosting the ASEAN – India partnership in the coming years as it is strategically important to peace, stability and development in the region.

President Truong Tan Sang on December 20 extended his congratulations to Park Geun-hye, who was elected the new President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) in the December 19 elections. 

(VOV) - The Lao Government will do its utmost to effectively implement agreements signed with Vietnam, to strengthen traditional friendship, special solidarity and all-round cooperation.

(VOV) - The General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and State President Chummaly Sayasone will pay an official visit to Vietnam from December 26-28.

(VOV) - A delegation from the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by Tran Cam Tu, CPV Central Committee member, attended the 53rd National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party of South Africa.

(VOV) - Hanoi has held a December 20 ceremony to launch a project on improving the capacity of Vietnam’s international integration with a vision to 2020”.

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged Vietnamese agencies in India to intensify their diverse activities aimed at promoting the friendship with India.

(VOV) -Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has received Sato Yoshio, President and CEO of the Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, on December 20.

The Vietnam-Chile Friendship and Cooperation Association has been urged to make further contributions to people-to-people diplomacy as well as the relations between Vietnam and Chile in its 2012-17 term. 

(VOV) - Vietnam and Laos will work closely together to ease difficulties for businesses to implement investment projects.

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung left Hanoi on December 20 for New Delhi to attend a two-day ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit.

A Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) delegation led by Hoang Binh Quan, member of the CPV Central Committee and head of its Commission for External Relations, visited the US from December 9-19. 

(VOV) - Vietnam attaches importance to strengthening the friendship and all-round cooperation with the US, PM Nguyen Tan Dung has said.

Procurator General Nguyen Hoa Binh of the Vietnam Supreme People’s Procuracy held talks with head of the Lao Supreme People’s Procuracy Khamsan Souvong in Vientiane on December 18. 

A number of articles highlighting the traditional friendship and strategic partnership between Vietnam and India were released in a special issue of Indian NAM Today magazine on the occasion of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s India visit.

Prime Minister of Haiti Laurent Salvador Lamothe left Hanoi on December 18, successfully concluding his official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung.

(VOV) - The Cambodian United Front for National Construction and Defence (CUFNCD) will do its utmost to maintain and lift the Vietnam-Cambodia traditional friendship to a new height.

(VOV) - Politburo member and Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Central Committee (CPVCC), Dinh The Huynh , hosted a reception in Hanoi on December 18 for Matthias Hohn, Federal General Secretary of Germany’s Left Party (Die Linke).

(VOV) - The 5th National Congress of the Vietnam War Veterans Association (VWVA) opened in Hanoi on December 18, involving 510 delegates representing 2.6 million association members across the country.

(VOV) - PM Laurent Salvador Lamothe has called on Vietnamese businesses to invest in rice production, machinery assembling, power generation, and infrastructure construction.

A meeting was held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 17 for Military Zone 7 officials and soldiers and Cambodian alumni that formerly studied in Vietnam.

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung met with the Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Polish Sejm (Lower House of the Polish parliament), Grzgorz Schetyna, in Hanoi on December 17.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged police forces to ensure security and public order in all fields.