Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed a decision on May 22, assigning Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quoc To, Deputy Minister of Public Security, to take the helm of the ministry.

Nguyen Minh Hang, Assistant Foreign Minister and Director-General of the Department of Economic Affairs, has been picked as deputy minister of Foreign Affairs.

The Chairman of the Central Commission for External Relations, Le Hoai Trung, was elected to the Party Central Committee's Secretariat at the Party Central Committee's 8th plenum on October 6.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh on July 25 was assigned by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to assume the position of the Permanent Vice Chairman of the Vietnam National Mekong Committee (VNMC).

President Vo Van Thuong on July 14 handed over a decision on the appointment of Nguyen Hong Nam, Senior Judge and Deputy Chief Justice of the High-level People's Court in Hanoi as Judge of the Supreme People’s Court.