Vietnam continued efforts to connect with global partners, especially those to explore new growth drivers in Latin America, the Middle East-Africa, and G7 industrialised nations via external affairs and diplomatic activities of Party and State leaders, according to local Argentine media.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the diplomatic sector's role in achieving at least 8% growth in gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025 at Ministry of Foreign Affairs review conference on January 6 in Hanoi which focused on evaluating the ministry's performance in 2024 and setting key tasks for 2025.

Vibrant economic diplomatic activities in 2024 have contributed to creating a firm foundation for Vietnam and Singapore to upgrade their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership level, according to Cao Xuan Thang, Trade Counsellor and head of the Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore.

In November 2024, the “Vietnam Days Abroad” programme made its debut in Latin America, leaving lasting impressions.

As 2024 draws to a close with a series of “significant successes,” Vietnam is gearing up for an even more active year in 2025, Ambassador Nguyen Thi Van Anh, Vietnam’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO, told Vietnam News Agency’s correspondents in Paris, where UNESCO’s headquarters is based.

VOV.VN - The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and its Commission for Propaganda and Training and Commission for Foreign Affairs coordinated with the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) to organize a presentation on Vietnam's bamboo diplomacy policy on December 24 in Vientiane.

Economic diplomacy has truly become a key component in all external affairs, especially high-level diplomacy, contributing effectively to implemeting strategic breakthroughs, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has said.

VOV.VN - Implementing the foreign policy of the Party and State, realizing the goals, viewpoints, and directions of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence, recent years has seen international integration and defence diplomacy carried out synchronously and proactively, achieving comprehensive results, and continuing to be one of the important pillars of Party diplomacy, State diplomacy, and citizen diplomacy.

VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man of Vietnam met with Ken Matsuzawa, president of the International Friendship Exchange Council (FEC) of Japan, in Tokyo on December 5 to discuss the promotion of people-to-people diplomacy between the two countries.

The upcoming official visit to Singapore by National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, starting December 1, is to take place at a very important time, as Vietnam is entering the "era of nation’s rise" and Singapore is creating additional value by promoting its strengths through an investment cooperation strategy.