Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 29 chaired a meeting of the cabinet with representatives of various ministries on key tasks and measures to realise the socio – economic development plan and the State budget projection for 2020 (draft Solution 01).
VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith have reaffirmed the importance of the ties of great friendship and special solidarity, built and nurtured by generations of the two nations' leaders and people.
VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Botswana Unity Dow have reached a consensus on a score of specific measures to deepen bilateral relations, including facilitating the exchange of all-level delegations.
VOV.VN - ASEAN cooperation in the East Sea took centre stage at the fifth Ocean Dialogue in Hanoi on June 18, which draw nearly 100 delegates from some 30 foreign agencies and international organisations, Vietnamese ministries and agencies, alongside experts and scholars.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc suggested that Vietnam and India step up their trade ties during his reception for outgoing Indian Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish in Hanoi on June 17.
Vietnam has a big opportunity to win a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council for the 2020-2021 term, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of Vietnam’s permanent mission to the UN, has said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a meeting in Hanoi on January 11 with correspondents and press assistants of foreign press agencies, along with cultural and press attachés of foreign representative agencies in Vietnam on the occasion of the 2019 new year.
Vietnam wants to bolster cooperation with the United Kingdom (UK) in the fields of economy, trade, investment, finance, culture, education, defence and security, said General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong.
VOV.VN -President Tran Dai Quang voiced hope that the visit by Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia Wesley Simina will help foster ties between the two legislative bodies as well as Vietnam – Micronesia relationship.
VOV.VN - Vietnam always places importance on solidifying and developing friendship and all-around cooperation with traditional countries, including Ukraine, said National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairman Do Ba Ty while receiving Friendship Parliamentarians Group led by its Chairwoman Yurynets Oksana Vasylivna in Hanoi on April 23.
Russia vetoed a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on October 8 that would have demanded an immediate end to air strikes and military flights over Syria's Aleppo city and called for a truce and humanitarian aid access throughout Syria.
The United Nations Security Council on October 6 unanimously nominated former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres to be the next Secretary-General, recommending that the 193-member General Assembly appoint him for five years from Jan. 1, 2017.
Malaysia has assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for August.
VOV.VN - The United Nations Security Council on July 21 conducted the first unofficial vote for a new UN Secretary-General to succeed Ban Ki-moon, whose term will end on December 31.
The United Nations Security Council on June 23 condemned DPRK's most recent ballistic missile launches as a grave violation of an international ban and called on the 193 UN member states to enforce toughened sanctions on the Asian state.
Canada will campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council in 2021-2022, new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on March 16, seeking to repair battered relations with the world body.
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The Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on peacekeeping opened on July 27 in Jakarta with the participation of about 100 top officials from 30 countries, including five members of the United Nations Security Council.
(VOV) - The newly- accredited Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia, Pham Cao Phong, presented his credentials on November 25 to Malaysian King Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah in Kuala Lumpur.
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The Vietnamese Businesses’ Association in Australia (VBAA) has expressed their concern about recent developments in the East Sea, which increase tension in the region.
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A United Nations Security Council committee is meeting on October 7 to consider a Palestinian bid for UN membership.
