Vietnamese diplomacy must reach new heights

On August 29, General Secretary and President To Lam had a working session with the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on implementing the foreign policy of the 13th National Party Congress and developing the diplomatic sector.

General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized that from a poor, backward, besieged and embargoed country, Vietnam has become a developing country with average income, deeply and widely integrated into world politics, the global economy and human civilization.

General Secretary and President To Lam works with the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PHOTO: DAU TIEN DAT

The General Secretary and President affirmed that these results were achieved thanks to the wise and talented leadership of the Party, the solidarity, unity and consensus of the entire Party, people and army. Above all, it is a testament to the correct and appropriate foreign policy, in which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs plays an important role and makes important contributions, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs playing the core, pioneering, active and proactive role. Foreign affairs have constantly consolidated "position and strength", expanded friendly relations and cooperation with neighboring countries, regions, traditional friends, and a network of strategic partnerships and comprehensive partnerships with 30 countries. In close and effective coordination with defense, security and other foreign affairs forces, diplomacy has contributed to firmly protecting the Fatherland from early on, from afar, before the country was in danger; actively contribute to peace, cooperation and development in the region and the world, perform well its role, propose many initiatives and cooperation ideas in multilateral mechanisms, especially in ASEAN and the United Nations.

General Secretary and President To Lam gives a directive speech

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At the same time, diplomacy constantly strengthens national solidarity, cares for, and mobilizes the overseas Vietnamese community to actively contribute to building the homeland and country, and spreads Vietnam's soft power to the world through cultural diplomacy and foreign information. Coordination on the three pillars of Party diplomacy, State diplomacy, and people-to-people diplomacy,   activities of   Vietnamese representative agencies abroad, the work of building the diplomatic sector, especially the Party building, has made an important contribution to the country's foreign affairs achievements. Emphasizing that the world is in a period of epochal change, General Secretary and President To Lam pointed out that our country is standing at a new historical starting point, a new era, an era of the Vietnamese people's rise. Therefore, the head of the Party and State suggested that in the coming time, foreign affairs work needs to be proactive and timely in detecting opportunities and challenges, contributing to the successful implementation of the 100-year strategic goals under the Party's leadership and the 100th anniversary of the country's founding. Raising the level and expanding Vietnam's contributions to peace, cooperation, development and progress of humanity, strongly spreading the "version of Vietnam as an independent, self-reliant, peaceful, cooperative, friendly, developed, prosperous and happy"; building a team of diplomatic staff that is both red and professional. In particular, it is necessary to build and consolidate new-era diplomacy, in which the highest goal is to "ensure the highest national and ethnic interests, for a strong Party, for a prosperous socialist Vietnam, with an important position and role in world politics, the global economy and human civilization, for the prosperity and happiness of the people"; to meet the requirements of connecting the country with the world, the nation with the times, and to proactively participate in solving common world issues.

General Secretary and President To Lam took a souvenir photo with delegates attending the working session.

PHOTO: DAU TIEN DAT

On the basis of the principles of steadfastly following the leadership of the Party and socialism, independence, self-reliance, self-confidence, self-reliance, national pride, multilateralization, diversification, for peace, cooperation and development, proactively and actively integrating comprehensively and deeply into the international community, new-age diplomacy adheres to the mottos of "responding to all changes with constancy", "peace and friendship", "using benevolence to replace violence", "making more friends, reducing enemies". With the method of closely combining the three pillars of Party diplomacy, State diplomacy and people's diplomacy, linking diplomacy with the people's hearts, bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, political, economic, international legal tools, foreign information, new-age diplomacy will also focus on the key points of economic diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, environmental diplomacy, human rights diplomacy, information, closely combining the three pillars of diplomacy with national defense and security. Reiterating President Ho Chi Minh's words "... the best way to use troops is to fight with strategy; the second is to fight with diplomacy; the third is to fight with troops", the General Secretary and President emphasized that in the new era, Vietnamese diplomacy must rise to new heights to fulfill new glorious responsibilities, worthy of being the "vanguard", making important contributions to the cause of building, developing the country and defending the Fatherland.

Thanhnien.vn

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