VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 18 sent a letter to President of the European Council Charles Michel suggesting the European Union (EU) share COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, who heads the Working Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy, has stressed the group's resolve to promote vaccine diplomacy for the country's fastest access to COVID-19 vaccines and medical equipment and drugs to treat the disease.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son chaired the first meeting of the Government’s freshly established working group on COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy in Hanoi on August 16.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) held a teleconference on July 30 to discuss measures aimed at boosting economic diplomacy in order to ensure the dual goal of both ensuring COVID-19 prevention and controlling socio-economic development.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh demanded ministries, sectors, and localities reinforce all forces to ramp up the COVID-19 combat while addressing an unscheduled meeting with the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on July 19.

Bilateral and multilateral defence diplomacy has been carried out in a proactive, flexible, creative, effective, and substantive manner, continuing to serve as one of the pillars in Vietnam’s diplomacy and help raise the country’s role, stature, and prestige in the world.

The diplomacy sector must adhere to reality, the Government’s priorities and foreign policy put forward by the 13th National Party Congress, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has said.

VOV.VN - Vietnam will continue to embark on its vaccine diplomacy strategy to secure an adequate supply of COVID-19 vaccines for domestic use, said Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Vu in an exclusive interview granted to VOV on July 7.

The economic growth target for this year remains unchanged with two scenarios of 6 percent and 6.5 percent expansion for this year, affirmed Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a regular Government meeting held in Hanoi on July 1.

VOV.VN - A seminar on people-to-people diplomacy in the new context was held in both in-person and via an online platform by the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on June 18.