The ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies’ Meeting (AFCDM) was held online in Hanoi on October 1 in preparation for the sixth ASEAN Finance Ministers’ and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting (AFMGM) scheduled for the following day.

VOV.VN - Canada and Vietnam have strong trade ties built on good people-to-people exchanges, said Kendal Hembroff, Director General in charge of Trade Negotiations at Global Affairs Canada.

The first dialogue between the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) of the UK was held via video conference on October 1 with the theme of “cooperation in green economic development post-COVID-19”.

VOV.VN - Vietnam pursues a consistent stance on East Sea-related issues and this has been affirmed repeatedly on different occasions, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang told the ministry’s regular press briefing on October 1.

VOV.VN - The nation always considers the UK as a leading partner in Europe and the world, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a reception for UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and First Secretary of State Dominic Raab in Hanoi on September 30.

Vietnam and the UK issued a “Joint Declaration on the Vietnam - UK Strategic Partnership: Forging Ahead for Another 10 Years” after the talks in Hanoi on September 30 between Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and UK First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development

VOV.VN - The UK Government desires to reinforce the strategic partnership with Vietnam in an effective manner, and it is also appreciative of Vietnam’s increasingly important role and position in the Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asian regions.

VOV.VN - Hanoi is scheduled to host the US - Vietnam Business Summit 2020 on October 9 with a range of topics up for discussion, including energy and the state of digital supply chains in the period following the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

VOV.VN - New Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide is scheduled to visit both Vietnam and Indonesia in mid-October, with a final decision on the order of events set to be made on the basis of the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation.

VOV.VN - Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese mission to the UN, praised the co-operation activities between the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) on September 29 while in attendance at a virtual annual consultation between the two councils.