PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and ASEAN Ambassadors
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The leader noted with joy Vietnam’s establishment of close cooperation frameworks with other ASEAN nations, including the special cooperation with Laos, the friendly neighbourliness and comprehensive cooperation with Cambodia, the strategic partnership with the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, and the friendship and multi-faceted cooperation with Brunei and Myanmar.
The PM called on all ASEAN member countries to join hands with each other to build an ASEAN of unity and solidarity, especially in the context of changes in the regional strategic climate and the growing strategic competition between powers. Vietnam will team up with its ASEAN peers in maintaining the group’s key role, strengthening its solidarity and unity in handling regional strategic issues and other matters relating to the bloc’s relations with partners, as well as in defining the regional structure on the basis of forums led by ASEAN, he promised.
Vietnamese ministries, agencies and localities will closely coordinate with the ambassadors to help them fulfill their assigned tasks and make more contributions to the affiliation between Vietnam and other ASEAN countries, the Government leader affirmed.
He noted that ASEAN nations need to establish a united bloc in the context of changes in the regional strategic environment, adding that Viet Nam commits to coordinating with other ASEAN countries to actively contribute to maintaining the bloc's leading role and enhancing its solidarity in addressing strategic issues in the region, relations between ASEAN and its partners and the formation of the regional structure.
Regarding complicated issues in the East Sea, the PM proposed ASEAN nations accelerate cooperation to uphold the bloc's central role and maintain its standpoint on the East Sea issues, promote the settlement of disputes with peaceful measures based on international regulations, including the United Nations on the Law of the Sea 1982 and the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and working to build a Code of Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (COC) to keep the regional peace, cooperation, stability, security, safety and cooperation.
On behalf of the diplomats, Lao Ambassador Thongsavanh Phomvihane pledged to do their utmost to foster cooperation between their countries and Vietnam, and contribute to the friendship and solidarity within ASEAN, for regional prosperity and development. The meeting between the nine Ambassadors and the PM manifested the friendship and solidarity between ASEAN countries, said Lao Ambassador to Viet Nam Thongsavanh Phomvihane.
He pledged that they will do their utmost to enhance the cooperative relations between ASEAN countries with Viet Nam as well as boost the relations in the bloc, for prosperity and development goals. Vietnamese ministries, agencies and localities will cooperate with the Ambassadors to help them successfully fulfill their tasks to develop the relations between Viet Nam and other ASEAN nations, he affirmed.
