General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam met with US Senator Steve Daines, Senator for Montana and member of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, in New York on September 23 morning.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam met with representatives of JPMorganChase and Visa in New York on the morning of September 23 (local time).

A C-17 military transport aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force arrived in Hanoi on September 23 to carry Vietnam’s Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 8 to South Sudan to undertake United Nations peacekeeping duties.

Party General Secretary and President To Lam met leaders from Ghana, Bhutan and the Vatican, as well as the UN General Assembly president, in New York on September 22 on the sidelines of UNGA 81.

Deputy Minister of Construction Bui Xuan Dung has had a working session with German authorities and businesses to seek cooperation and explore technology transfer for the North-South high-speed railway project.

Party General Secretary and President To Lam met US-ASEAN Business Council representatives and US businesses in New York on September 23, where he was briefed on the Vietnam War Accounting Initiative.

Deputy PM and Defence Minister Gen. Phan Van Giang met UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix in New York on September 23, with Lacroix affirming UN support for Vietnam’s greater participation in peacekeeping operations.

Party General Secretary and President To Lam met UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at UN headquarters in New York on September 23, during the high-level week of the 81st UN General Assembly.

National Assembly (NA) Vice President Nguyen Doan Anh led an NA delegation to visit Finland on September 21-23, the first leg of his working trip to Finland, Norway and Lithuania from September 21-30.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung has held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Brunei, Slovenia, Germany, Costa Rica and Maldives in New York on the sidelines of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The Vietnam-Tanzania Business Forum in Dar es Salaam on September 22 brought together officials and businesses to explore opportunities for stronger trade and investment ties.

Patricia Abarzua Munoz, President of the Chile-Vietnam Cultural Friendship Institute, praised the countries’ longstanding friendship, rooted in historical ties, solidarity and mutual respect, as well as their growing bilateral relations.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation met with Vietnamese experts and intellectuals in the US, in New York on September 21 morning (local time).

Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defence held a ceremony in Hanoi on September 22 to send off a field hospital and engineering unit for UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and Abyei.

Party General Secretary and President To Lam said Vietnam is ready to contribute more to global peace and development while pursuing growth driven by science, technology, innovation and high-quality human resources.

Vietnam is taking part in Exercise Trident Resolve 2026, a multinational ADMM+ field exercise on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, military medicine and cybersecurity, which opened in Cilegon, Indonesia, on September 22.

The Asia-Pacific Dialogue on Heritage and Authenticity will take place from September 27 to October 1 in Hanoi and Ninh Binh, bringing together around 250 Vietnamese and regional delegates, as heard at a press conference on September 22.

General Secretary and President To Lam met with leaders of three major US groups – Warburg Pincus, Boeing and Apple – in New York on the afternoon of September 21 (local time), discussing investment, aviation and technology cooperation.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and President To Lam met with Thomas R. Hardy, Acting Director of the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), in New York on September 21 (local time).

General Secretary and President To Lam met with Professor Sarah Anne Soule, Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, in New York on September 21 afternoon (local time).