On the evening of December 7, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with the Heads of Vietnamese Representative Agencies Abroad before taking up his duties. Also in attendance was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son.
At the meeting, Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu said that recently, 26 Ambassadors and Heads of Vietnamese Representative Agencies Abroad were appointed to represent Vietnam in 48 countries and one international organization. The newly appointed officials are all professional diplomats with many years of experience.
Before leaving for their missions, the Ambassadors and Heads of Vietnamese Representative Agencies abroad thoroughly grasped the Party's policies and guidelines; worked with ministries, departments, branches, localities, and enterprises to grasp the situation and collect information to serve the work in the coming time.
Expressing their great honor and responsibility to the country, speaking at the meeting, representatives of the Ambassadors and Heads of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad affirmed that they will make efforts, try, unite, promote their capacity, closely follow the locality; concretize and well implement the foreign policies and guidelines of the Party and State; promote the relations between Vietnam and other countries and international organizations to become deeper, more practical and more effective in the coming time.
Congratulating the Ambassadors and Heads of Representative Agencies who have been "chosen" to carry out the task, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that this is a great honor and also a glorious task that the Party, State and people trust and entrust; he believes that professional, experienced, and proficient diplomats who have made many contributions to the sector and have advised the Party and State leaders on many important foreign affairs issues will fulfill their responsibilities well.
Highlighting the position, role and great achievements of foreign affairs and diplomacy, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that successful foreign affairs contribute to promoting and making domestic affairs stable and developed. Therefore, in diplomacy, we must adhere to the policy, but be very flexible; we must always demonstrate Vietnamese culture, be truly sincere, open-minded, respectful, in the spirit of harmonious interests. Whether the diplomatic relations between the two sides are good or not depends on the important role of the Ambassador.
Informing the Ambassadors and Heads of Vietnamese Representatives abroad about the achievements of 40 years of renovation, Vietnam has formed a path to socialism, with three main pillars: building socialist democracy; building a socialist rule-of-law state; building a socialist-oriented market economy; throughout this process, people are the center, the subject, and at the same time the goal and the driving force for development; not sacrificing progress and social and environmental justice to pursue mere economic growth.
“These viewpoints are based on Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, which are the crystallization of the Vietnamese people's culture for more than 4,000 years, and are creatively applied in Vietnam's conditions and in the international context,” the Prime Minister affirmed.
Outlining the six key tasks and three strategic breakthroughs identified by the 13th National Party Congress, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the tasks of foreign affairs and diplomacy need to focus on comprehensively promoting: politics, diplomacy; economics, investment, trade; culture and people-to-people exchange; community work, citizen protection...
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that our country is in the final stage of successfully implementing the goals of the 13th National Congress as well as building the guidelines of the 14th National Congress, aiming to celebrate the 80th anniversary of independence and the 50th anniversary of national reunification. In the immediate future, we are focusing on implementing the organizational arrangement according to Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW... to realize the development goals by 2030, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, and 2045, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the country, making our country a developed country with high income, where people have a prosperous and happy life, and live in a secure and safe environment.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested the Heads of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad to continue implementing and concretizing the guidelines and instructions of the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, especially the economic and development focuses in the 13th Party Congress Documents, Directive No. 15 of the Secretariat and Resolution No. 21 of the Government on economic diplomacy.
Noting that Ambassadors and Chief Representatives must lead, direct and be the core to maintain solidarity and internal unity at Vietnamese Embassies and Representative Agencies abroad, the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and relevant ministries and branches to continue to research and take care of ensuring the best possible facilities and policies in the current conditions of the country so that Vietnamese Embassies and Representative Agencies abroad can best serve the foreign policy of the Party and State; together with the whole country, enter a new period - the era of national prosperity and strength.
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