The visit to Laos made by Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang will help consolidate and develop the time-honoured friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries.

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh asserted women’s role in building stable and sustainable societies in her speech delivered at the closing ceremony of the 26 th Global Summit of Women in Warsaw, Poland, on June 11.

 Minister of Public Security Sen. Lieut. Gen. To Lam is paying a working visit to Indonesia from June 9 to 11 to discuss bilateral cooperation in relevant fields.

 Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Home Affairs has submitted a plan to the Chairman of the city’s People’s Committee to recruit directors, deputy directors, and department managers in Committees at both the city and district level.

A supervision group of the National Assembly’s Finance and Budget Commission this week worked with HCMC to estimate state budget condition in the first half this year, implementation of the law against waste and corruption last year.

Public servants must listen to censures and considered them as a motivation to rise. If each civil servant and each agency conduct administrative reform, it will bring great benefits, said Secretary of HCMC Party Committee Dinh La Thang.

 Ho Chi Minh City expects Heads of the Vietnamese diplomatic missions abroad to help broaden its collaboration, friendship and understanding with and other countries.

 Vietnam is looking for stronger cooperation with Germany across trade, environmental technology, ecology, processing technology and human resources training, said Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Doan Xuan Hung.

 Vietnam attaches importance to its time-honoured friendship and cooperation with Poland, affirmed Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh at her meeting with Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo in Warsaw, on June 9.

The National Election Council yesterday held a press conference to announce results of the 14th National Assembly election in which leaders of Communist Party, Government and National Assembly garnered the highest number of votes.

 The Government has issued a resolution on its May meeting, requesting ministries, agencies and localities to be determined in actions to achieve the set targets.

 Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh affirmed women’s important role in national development in her speech delivered at the opening ceremony of the 26th Global Summit of Women in Warsaw, Poland, on June 9.

 US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius described the recent historical visit to Vietnam by President Barack Obama a great success during a discussion at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington D.C on June 9.

 National Assembly Secretary General Nguyen Hanh Phuc has declared that the election of deputies to the 14th NA and People’s Councils at all levels for 2016-2021 has been a success with a 99.35 percent turnout.

Vietnam will actively support and share experience so that Laos can fulfil its presidency of ASEAN in 2016 as well as successfully organise the ASEAN Summit.

ASEAN and Chinese senior officials reviewed the implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea and discussed the building of a Code of Conduct in the East Sea during their 12th meeting yesterday.

 Polish Deputy Marshal of the Sejm (lower house) Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska said her country and other EU member states support Vietnam and ASEAN in carrying out peaceful measures in line with international laws to settle disputes in the East Sea.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has requested an examination of news published by Thanh Nien newspaper regarding Vice Chairman of the Mekong Delta Hau Giang provincial People’s Committee Trinh Xuan Thanh.

 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a workshop in Hanoi on June 9 to introduce the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF), following similar events in Myanmar and Laos.

 President Tran Dai Quang had separate meetings with newly-accredited ambassadors from India, the Republic of Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Federated States of Micronesia, Latvia and Guinea-Bissau.