Vietnam proposed perfecting national and international legal systems to create a legal corridor to promote gender equality at a plenary session of the 145th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU 145).

On the occasion of the 45^th anniversary of Vietnam’s United Nations (UN) membership, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son wrote an article entitled “45 years of Vietnam-UN relationship: reliable partnership for peace, cooperation and development”.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has underlined the need to further promote and scale up multilateral diplomacy, and external activities must be implemented with sincerity, trust, equality and respect, with an willingness to listen for effective cooperation and common development, thus laying the foundation for making full use of international resources for the national sustainable development.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong asked the diplomatic sector to inherit the flexible and creative but still fierce and resilient foreign policies applied by late President Ho Chi Minh while speaking at the first National Conference on Foreign Affairs held in Hanoi on December 14 in both in-person and virtual forms.

Vietnam, as Chair of the UN Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 2206 concerning South Sudan, on December 13 (US time) briefed the council on the committee's operations over the past two years.

Vietnam News Agency talks with Dang Dinh Quy, head of Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, about the preparations and challenges the country is facing during its two-year seat on the UN Security Council starting January 1 next year.

Vietnam and Romania are each other’s important partner as said a joint statement issued at the end of the official visit to Romania from April 14-16 made by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the invitation of Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila.

Vietnam and the Netherlands have issued a joint statement on the official visit to Vietnam by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on April 9 at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Permanent Vietnam Mission to the United Nations, attended the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security’s debate on conventional weapons within the framework of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York on October 24.

Promoting effective cooperation with the United Nations is always a top priority of Vietnam’s foreign policies, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a ceremony to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Vietnam’s membership to the UN in Hanoi on October 17.