VOV.VN - Vietnam has welcomed many foreign leaders and it has been elected to many important international organisations over the past few years, showing the country’s enhanced status and prestige globally, said Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held talks with his Beninese counterpart Olushegun Adjadi Bakari in Hanoi on December 14.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son put forward major priority areas of Mekong –Lancang cooperation (MLC) at the seventh MLC Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in China on December 7.

President Vo Van Thuong’s freshly-concluded visit to Japan has reaped significant and comprehensive achievements, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son told the press.

VOV.VN - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, will be in Vietnam from December 1 to December 2 to hold the 15th Meeting of the China-Vietnam Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation at the invitation of Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang.

VOV.VN - Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommsith will visit Vietnam and co-chair the 10th Vietnam-Laos Foreign Minister-level Political Consultation from November 21 to November 23 following the invitation by Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.

VOV.VN - Vietnam desires the eastern German federal State of Thüringen to ramp up ties with its partners in areas where the State has strengths such as agriculture, high technology, manufacturing, and processing, as well as launching co-operation schemes within the framework of the Fair Energy Transition Partnership (JEPT) agreement.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on November 1 hosted First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Chang Ho-jin on the occasion of his visit to Vietnam to co-chair the fifth deputy foreign ministerial level strategic dialogue on diplomacy, security and defence between the two countries.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son hosted a reception for visiting Tsutomu Takebe, special advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance in Hanoi on October 27.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara on October 26 agreed to work to elevate their countries’ strategic partnership to a new height.