VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh alongside other leaders of other ASEAN member states on May 11 attended a retreat session of the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia to discuss international and regional issues of shared concern.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. on the sidelines of the ongoing 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, on May 10.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Indonesian President Joko Widodo have agreed to further bring into play the traditional close-knit friendship so as to take both nations’ strategic partnership to new heights.

VOV.VN - ASEAN must seek to strongly promote the strength of solidarity, unity, and strategic autonomy, whilst effectively enhancing its central role with the support and respect of its partners and affirming its mission of maintaining peace, stability, and development in the region, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has said.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed Vietnam's foreign policy of strengthening ties with Palestine, while receiving Palestinian Minister of the Interior Ziad Hab Al-Reeh in Hanoi on May 8.

VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has affirmed Vietnam’s recognition of great importance to strengthening the Vietnam - UK strategic partnership during a recent meeting with UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in London.

VOV.VN - State President Vo Van Thuong held separate meetings with UK and Cuban leaders as part of his ongoing trip to the UK to attend the coronation of King Charles III from May 4 to May 6.

VOV.VN - Judge Albert Hoffmann, president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), lauded Vietnamese efforts in enforcing the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), during a recent working session with Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Vu Quang Minh.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Fisheries Society (VINAFIS) has voiced its objection to China’s unilateral fishing ban in the East Sea for 2023.

VOV.VN - China's so-called fishing ban infringes on Vietnamese sovereignty over the (Paracel) archipelago, Vietnam’s sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the territorial waters within the nation’s exclusive economic zone, as defined by the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).