General Secretary and President To Lam and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation visited and held a working session with representatives from biopharmaceutical company Pfizer in New York on September 22.

General Secretary and President To Lam received Acting US Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao in New York on September 22, as part of his trip to attend the High-Level General Debate of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Vietnam seeks deeper cooperation with the US based on mutual interests, contributing to regional and global peace and stability, Deputy PM Phan Van Giang said.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President of Vietnam To Lam delivered a policy speech at the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) in New York on September 22 morning (local time).

Addressing more than 2,000 people in New York, Party General Secretary and President To Lam called on Vietnamese Americans to put the past behind them and help shape the country’s future.

Vietnamese leader To Lam will travel to the US and Canada from Sept. 20-25 for the UN General Assembly and high-level diplomacy aimed at deepening ties with two key North American partners.

Vietnam has handed the US a sign and guardhouse from a former Marine Corps camp in Da Nang, in a gesture highlighting reconciliation more than half a century after the war.

A new five-year phase of US-Vietnam health cooperation will build on their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and broader ties in trade, security and innovation, the US Department of State said on Sept. 14.

Vietnam and the US have signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) on health cooperation, aimed at promoting collaboration in the prevention and control of infectious diseases.

Vietnam has received 110 citizens returned from the United States after they were denied permission to remain in the country, immigration authorities said on Sept. 12.

A box of clean soil from Da Nang Airport carries with it a story of land once contaminated by war, of responsibility toward the past, and of the long effort by Vietnam and the United States to heal the wounds between two nations.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Van Thang has urged the US to remove Vietnam from its D1 and D3 export control lists, consider recognizing the country as a market economy, and take an objective and fair approach to trade remedy cases.

Promoting more balanced trade, expanding defense and security cooperation, and strengthening people-to-people ties are three major priorities for US Ambassador to Vietnam Jennifer Wicks.

US Ambassador Jennifer Wicks has pledged close coordination with both countries’ agencies to prepare for upcoming high-level visits and advance Vietnam-US relations.

Compliance with standards, transparent origin, stronger supply chains and expanded two-way trade are becoming key to more balanced, stable and sustainable Vietnam-US trade in the long term.

Vietnam remains resolute in preventing origin fraud and the illegal transshipment of goods, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang said on August 20.

Target, Walmart and other major US retailers are set to come to Vietnam with extensive product-sourcing lists, opening new opportunities for Vietnamese businesses to secure export orders and join global supply chains.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Gau held talks with the US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on August 14.

A Vietnamese defence delegation on August 12 held working sessions at the University of Georgia and a leading US military forensic facility on the search for and identification of martyrs’ remains.

Vietnam and the US are stepping up cooperation in wartime records, technology and resources to accelerate the search for and identification of fallen Vietnamese soldiers’ remains.