ASEAN, China eye ways to boost ties

Promoting connections and co-operation in non-traditional security between ASEAN countries and China were up for discussion at seminars held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Nha Trang in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

Delegates said they highly valued the geographical advantages, historical relations and growing commercial exchanges through the ASEAN and China free trade area which would play a fundamental role in connecting ASEAN countries and China.

Participants also discussed challenges facing non-traditional security and measures to boost further co-operation between ASEAN countries and China in the prevention of trans-national crimes such as human trafficking, illegal emigration, drug smuggling and money laundering. They also talked about climate change, natural disasters, energy security and sea security.

Chinese delegates affirmed that the Chinese government would continue to support ASEAN countries in successful implementation of the ASEAN conductivity master plan as well as draw investment from private sectors to develop infrastructure, improve capacity, human resource development and co-operation in science and technology.

Chinese ambassador gets farewell

Bilateral relations between Viet Nam and China were promoted by Chinese Ambassador Sun Guoxiang during his working term in Viet Nam, said Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh.

Making the comments at a reception for outgoing Chinese Ambassador Sun in Ha Noi yesterday, Thanh said that the Vietnamese Party, State, people and army highly appreciated the ambassador's contributions to consolidating and developing the solidarity, friendship and comprehensive co-operation between Viet Nam and China, including the ties between the two armies.

Viet Nam was thankful to China for its valuable assistance to the Vietnamese people during the past years, Thanh said.

The ambassador congratulated Viet Nam on the success of the 11th National Party Congress as well as on the results of the recent National Assembly elections.

He also said the Chinese Party, Government and people attach importance to the traditional friendship with Viet Nam, adding that he would contribute to further developing the friendship, solidarity and comprehensive co-operation between the two countries. 

PM asks localities to modernize administrative offices

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked people’s committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to improve their management of local administrative offices.

His decree 1073 on July 5 says that the provinces and cities must accelerate their process of arranging state-owned housing and land, with a focus on offices under the local state administrative agencies.

The PM asked localities with a disorganized system of administrative offices to rearrange them and improve working conditions for civil servants.

For localities that have favourable conditions, he asked them to consider investment in building concentrated administrative complexes.

Such complexes, the PM says in the decree, should meet the demand for modernizing offices and have a modern technical infrastructure, providing a comfortable venue for operations of state agencies.

Mr Dung highlighted that the location for building administration complexes must be in line with the overall master plan for urban construction approved by authorities. Construction of these complexes must also take into account topographical, climatic, and geological features of each area and region, he stressed.

The PM’s decree requests local governments to select appropriate forms of mobilizing investment for building the complexes in an effective and economical way.

Vietnam Front sends greetings to Lao Front’s Congress

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee on July 6 sent a message of greetings to the Lao Front for National Construction on the latter’s on-going 9th Congress in Vientiane.

In the message, the VFFCC expressed its best wishes to the congress and belief that the event will be a success.
The VFFCC said in its message that the congress will certainly contribute to building and developing Laos, in line with the Resolution of the 9th Congress of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party.
The VFFCC also expressed hope that the Lao Front for National Construction will always unite with the VFF to further boost the solidarity, special friendship and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos.

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