VOV.VN - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam Bui Thanh Son will attend the 32nd ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) Meeting and the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat Meeting (AMMR) in Jakarta, Indonesia on February 3-4.

Under the wise and timely direction of Party and State leaders, in 2022, the diplomatic sector quickly shifted its focus from vaccine diplomacy to economic diplomacy for national recovery and development, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Vu said in a recent interview granted to the media.

VOV.VN - Last year saw Party, State, and National Assembly (NA) leaders participate in a broad array of important multilateral activities, thereby strongly conveying a message that the country is ready to be a friend and trusted and responsible partner of the wider international community.

The Vietnamese Government always values the development of traditional friendship with Portugal, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Joao Gomes Cravinho during a reception in Hanoi on January 18.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a ceremony in Hanoi on January 17 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam (Paris Peace Accords) (January 27, 1973-2023).

The upcoming Lao visit by Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is of special significance to the Laos-Vietnam partnership, Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Saleumsay Kommasith told Vietnam News Agency.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea (RoK) hosted a banquet in Seoul on December 22 evening to mark the 30th founding anniversary of Vietnam-RoK diplomatic relations.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Foreign Affair hosted a hybrid conference on December 13 on cashew trade with Africa to discuss measures to ensure the nation’s supply of raw cashew, drawing the participation over 70 representatives of ministries, sectors, localities, research institutes, import-export enterprises, and processing-production facilities.

VOV.VN - State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived in Seoul on December 4, beginning a three-day official visit to the Republic of Korea at the invitation of RoK President Yoon Suk-yeol.

VOV.VN - The 2022 Ho Chi Minh City friendship dialogue, the first of its kind which is getting underway on December 3-4 is expected to foster cooperation between the Vietnamese city and other localities across the globe in the following years.