Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, bilateral trade rose 18 per cent to US$13.21 billion in 2021 from $11.2 billion in 2019, and it could surpass $15 billion this year

The ultimate goal of the development programme for domestic pharmaceutical industry is to ensure the sufficient supply of medicines at reasonable costs for the people, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at a meeting held in Hanoi on September 21.

The 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77) was officially launched in New York on September 20 (local time), with Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, jointly chairing the opening.

A delegation of Hanoi capital led by Vice Secretary of the municipal Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s Council Nguyen Ngoc Tuan is paying a working visit to the United Kingdom (UK) from September 19-22.

Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, head of the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), WTO and other international organisations in Geneva, led a delegation to a UN exhibition on 100 years of multilateralism that opened in Geneva on September 20.

In the article entitled “45 years of Việt Nam-UN relationship: reliable partnership for peace, cooperation and development", Vietnamese foreign minister underlined that cooperation with the UN is always an important part of the Party and State’s foreign policies

The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

The draft amended law consists of 12 chapters and 117 articles compared to the 2012 Law on Cooperatives which had nine chapters and 64 articles.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 20 sent greetings to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Vietnam's admission to the UN (September 20, 1977 - September 20, 2022).

Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan met with visiting Vice President of the Thai Senate Supachai Somcharoen on September 20.

Ambassador Nguyen Van Thao affirmed that the country’s relations with Belgium and the EU are now at their prime while addressing a banquet held on September 19 in celebration of Vietnam’s 77th National Day (September 2).

Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien on September 20 received Indian Ambassador Pranay Verma who has concluded his tenure in Vietnam, and Defence Attaches at the Indian Embassy in Vietnam Col. Varadan Kumar and Col. Dheeraj Kotwal.

The arrest of Nguyễn Thanh Hải, 51-year-old, director of the Government Office’s department of international relations, was made as part of further investigation into the bribery case, according to Lt. Gen. Tô Ân Xô, Chief of the Office of and spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Security.  

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Indian Ambassador Pranay Verma in Hanoi on September 20, appreciating the outgoing diplomat’s contributions to the two countries’ cooperation in all aspects, especially during the two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency on September 20.

The sixth international conference on building a shared border of peace, friendship and cooperation for development between Vietnam and Cambodia took place in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on September 20.

The Central Committee of the Lao Federation of Trade Unions held a dialogue in Vientiane on September 20, on the occasion of the Vietnam-Laos, Laos-Vietnam Year of Solidarity and Friendship 2022.

The teleconference, the first of its kind, was linked with cities and provinces nationwide, and 94 Vietnamese embassies and representative agencies abroad.

A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by Bui Thi Minh Hoai, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairwoman of its Commission for Mass Mobilisation, paid a working visit to Poland from September 17-20.

Vietnam always remembers the United Nations (UN)’ support on the first days of its membership, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, head of the Vietnam’s permanent delegation to the UN, has said.