President urges diplomatic sector to exert more efforts on peace building

President Truong Tan Sang urged the diplomatic sector to exert further efforts to promote a peaceful environment for economic development and national sovereignty.

During a ceremony held in Ha Noi yesterday, April 2, to hand over ambassadorial appointment decisions to 35 diplomats, Sang encouraged them to implement the country's policy of comprehensive international integration.

President Truong Tan Sang hand over
ambassadorial appointment decision to a diplomat. 

The diplomatic sector should also take the lead in courting external resources to serve the country's economic restructuring, industrialisation and modernisation process and raise Viet Nam's international prestige, he said.

Paris workshop discusses East Sea potential

An East Sea workshop held in Paris on March 31 captured great attention from experts and researchers, especially Vietnamese postgraduates in France.

Among them were Prof Nguyen Duc Khuong, President of the Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts in France (ASVE), and Dr Le Trung Tinh, a member of the “East Sea Group in France.”

Speakers presented an overview of geopolitics, geoeconomics and the importance of the East Sea, as well its role and potential. They also examined current disputes and other issues relating to security and national defence at sea.

In their reports, Prof Khuong and Dr Tinh stressed that marine exploitation has been incorporated into the development strategy of almost all coastal or non-coastal countries.

They said when natural resources are running out and traditional economic space is shrinking due to a global population boom, countries give priority to searching for other natural resources at sea.

The East Sea plays a vital role in Vietnam’s sea-borne economic development as it makes up 20 percent of the country’s total GDP, they said.  

In addition, the sea offers the chance for Vietnam to develop some of its spearhead economic sectors, such as fish farming, offshore fishing, tourism, oil& gas, maritime transportation, and shipbuilding.

They underlined the need to safeguard national territorial waters to fully tap sea-borne economic potential.

They called on every Vietnamese to equip themselves with comprehensive knowledge and correct information about the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea and increase publications to help the world better understand the government’s stance on settling any sea disputes through peaceful means and according to international law.

Established in Paris not long ago, the East Sea Group in France has provided East Sea information to Vietnamese nationals residing in France, French people and other international friends through email, social networks, and the organisation of workshops and article composition contests in Vietnamese, English and French.

Vietnamese, Russian security leaders hold talks

Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang held talks with Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (RFSS) General Bortnikov A.V., who is leading a high-ranking delegation to Viet Nam from April 2-4.

At the talks in Ha Noi yesterday, April 2, Quang said he believed the working visit would strengthen friendship and co-operation between the two governments and people, as well as between his ministry and the RFSS.

He also spoke highly of the achievements Russia had made in recent years and thanked the country and its people for the assistance they had given to Viet Nam's national construction and defence.

The two security leaders agreed on measures to deepen co-operation in an effective manner to defend each country's national security, contributing to maintaining peace and security in the region and the world.

They also signed a co-operation plan.

Condolence sent over landslide victims in Tibet

Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh yesterday, April 2, sent a message of condolence to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi over the losses of life and property resulting from a landslide in a gold mine in Maizhokunggar County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The incident buried over 80 miners last Friday.

FSLN delegation visits Vietnam

A delegation of the Nicaraguan Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) is having a working visit to Vietnam from April 2-6 to foster bilateral relations between the two nations.

The delegation is headed by FSLN’s Foreign Relations Secretary Jacinto Suarez, who is also Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Nicaragua’s National Assembly.

On April 2, the delegation was received by Le Hong Anh, Politburo member and Standing member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

At the reception, the two sides briefed each other on each country’s current situation and expressed their wishes to strengthen cooperation between the two parties and States in the future.

During their visit, the FSLN delegation held talks with Hoang Binh Quan, Head of CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations.

The two sides exchanged views on regional and international issues of common concern as well as ways to intensify bilateral relations between the two parties and States.

Congratulations to DPRK Cabinet Premier

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on April 2 sent his congratulations to Pak Pong Ju on his election as Premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the seventh meeting of the 12 th Supreme People’s Assembly.

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