VOV.VN - Pierre Gréga, president of the Belgium-Vietnam Friendship Association, expressed his views in a recent media interview on Vietnamese achievements obtained through its consistent and productive foreign policy.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who is Chairman of the National Defence and Security Council, has requested the council’s members and agencies to promote their role in ensuring national defence and security, and actively cope with both short-term and long-term non-traditional security challenges.

Vietnam has called for more humanitarian aid for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) during the United Nations Security Council’s meeting on the country’s unrest and activities of the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) on December 6.

Kurt Campbell, the US National Security Council's coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, has described Vietnam as one of the countries to define the future of Asia, according to the asia.nikkei.com.

VOV.VN - The country has shown concern about Israel's continuous expansion of resettlement areas in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, saying that the activity goes against international law and weaken the prospect of the two-state solution.

VOV.VN - The nation shares the difficulties facing small developing island states, coastal countries, and those located below the sea level that are currently grappling with the adverse range of negative impacts caused by the climate change phenomenon.

VOV.VN - The diplomatic sector has made great contributions to the cause of national defence, construction and development throughout the country’s history over the past more than seven decades.

Vietnam always attaches great importance to further tightening the traditional friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation with African countries, said a Vietnamese official.

VOV.VN - Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Vietnam’s Permanent Representative to the UN, has emphasized the need to prioritise humanitarian assistance efforts to help Syrian people overcome the impact of the ongoing crisis in Syria.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's intervention at the United Nations Security Council High-level Open Debate on “Enhancing Maritime Security - A Case for International Cooperation” is important, said Dr. James Rogers, Co-founder and Director of Research at the UK's Council on Geostrategy.