Maritime cooperation is an essential part of the COVID-19 response and post-pandemic recovery, the 8th Expanded ASEAN Maritime Forum (EAMF), held in both the in-person and online formats on December 15, heard.

VOV.VN - Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung and Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific at the European External Action Service (EEAS) Gunnar Wiegand have expressed their satisfaction with the comprehensive and extensive development of the Vietnam-EU relationship over the past three decades.

Countries participating in a plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly’s 75th session on December 8 highlighted the importance of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as the international legal framework regulating all activities in the seas and oceans.

Vietnam and Mongolia on December 9 agreed on specific measures and orientations to consolidate and enhance their traditional friendship and cooperation in the time ahead.

There is ample room for the Vietnam-Philippines strategic partnership to grow intensively and extensively, heard a seminar in Hanoi on December 8.

VOV.VN - A spokesperson for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 3 voiced Vietnam’s strong protest against Taiwan’s recent live-fire drills in the waters surrounding the Ba Binh island of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) islands.

VOV.VN - China should respect Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes and cancel tours of Vietnam’s Paracel islands.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc discussed socio-economic issues, national defence and security, and external affairs during a working session with the teaching staff of the National Defence Academy in Hanoi on November 26.

VOV.VN - Maintaining peace and stability in the East Sea (internationally known as the South China Sea) is of primary concern for ASEAN and its partners at recent summits in Hanoi, according to a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The past year has witnessed a number of countries send notes to the UN rejecting China’s claims of sovereignty over the South China Sea, locally known as the East Sea, and demanding the peaceful settlement of the dispute in accordance to international law.