National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung was speaking at a July 22 meeting with Vietnam’s newly-appointed ambassadors and heads of representative agencies abroad.
The top legislator said he hopes Vietnamese diplomats, with their diplomatic expertise, will promote cooperation and enlist the support and assistance from international friends for national construction and development.
“In the global complicated context full of opportunities and challenges, the diplomats need to utilize beneficial cooperation opportunities and overcome challenges. Vietnamese diplomatic agencies should protect and care more for overseas Vietnamese and pay greater attention to the teaching of Vietnamese to them.” Hung emphasized.
He also expressed his conviction that the diplomats will garner the support from other countries’ parliaments for Vietnam’s hosting of the 132nd General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-132) in Hanoi next year.
The diplomats pledged their best efforts to foster diplomatic and parliamentary relations between Vietnam and other countries thus contributing to Vietnam’s construction and defense.
Meeting with the diplomats on the same day, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged them to make positive contributions to the national construction and defence and socio-economic development.
"The country’s current targets focus on maintaining a peaceful and stable environment for the national development and ensuring national independence, sovereignty, unification and territorial integrity." Dung said.
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| PM Dung meets with the diplomats in Hanoi on July 22 before they leave for their overseas missions. (Photo:VGP) |
He said the diplomats should pay attention to forging friendship and mutual understanding between Vietnam and the rest of the world and take advantage of international support for Vietnam's stance, especially in safeguarding the national sovereignty.
At the same time, they should work harder to expand export markets, boost Vietnamese investment overseas and attract foreign investment to the country, particularly in clean and high technology.
Promoting culture, education, science-technology, security and defence partnership with the host countries is also among their tasks, he added.
