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Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong said he hopes Vietnam and Australia will continue their sound Party ties and create firm political connectivity as a basis to step up their strategic partnership, at his reception in Hanoi on January 22 for President of the Senate of Australia Scott Ryan. General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong receives Australian Senate President Scott Ryan. (Photo: VNA) Senate President Scott Ryan, who is on an official visit to Vietnam, informed his host of the good results of his talks with Chairwoman of the Vietnam National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, affirming that the Senate of Australia will continue promoting its role in enhancing cooperation with the Vietnam NA and supporting the strategic partnership between the two countries. Australia will work closely with Vietnam in maintaining peace, stability, and cooperation in the region as well as in implementing efficiently agreements they joined, like the Comprehensive … [Read more...] about Party, State leader welcomes Australian Senate President

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong (R) launches the New Year Tree Planting Festival in Yen Bai on February 10 - Photo: VGP On November 28, 1959, President Ho Chi Minh wrote an article which was published on Nhan Dan (People) newspaper, stressing the significance of tree planting to each person, each family and the entire nation. It has since become an annual Vietnamese custom each Lunar New Year. Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong addresses the ceremony Addressing the ceremony, the Party and State leader underlined that tree plantation has played an important role in preventing natural disasters, improving quality of the environment, and bettering local livelihoods amidst global warming, climate change and sea level rise, which are billed as one of the formidable challenges to the human beings in the 21st century. He called upon the entire Party, army and people to engage in growing trees and forests as well as taking actions … [Read more...] about Party, State leader launches Tet tree planting festival in Yen Bai

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong (R) and Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo at the meeting on January 21 - Photo: VNA The leader highly valued the outcomes of the two countries’ recent exchanges and cooperation, stressing that Vietnam and China are neighbours who are both led by communist parties. Their traditional friendship, built by late Presidents Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong and nurtured by generations of leaders, is a precious asset that both sides need to uphold and promote. Amidst the current global and regional situation, the two parties and countries should increase experience sharing, foster substantive and effective cooperation in all aspects, and properly resolve outstanding problems on the basis of the common perceptions shared between their leaders and the international law, thus bringing practical benefits to the two peoples and contributing to peace, cooperation, and development in the region and the world, he noted. For his part, Xiong … [Read more...] about Vietnamese Party, State leader welcomes Chinese ambassador

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong (sixth, left) and the foreign diplomats (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong on October 16 received newly-accredited ambassadors from Sweden, France, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Angola, Laos, Uzbekistan, the Republic of Korea and Tanzania, and head the European Union (EU) delegation to Vietnam. The foreign diplomats are Swedish Ambassador Ann Margareta Mawe; French Ambassador Warnery Nicolas Manuel Jerome; Irish Ambassador John Mc Cullagh; Sri Lankan Ambassador Sampath Prasanna Walpita Gamage; Bahrain Ambassador Ahmed Abdulla Ahmed Alharmasi Alhajeri; Angolan Ambassador Agostinho Andre De Carvalho Fernandes; Lao Ambassador Sengphet Houngboungnuang; Uzbekistani Ambassador Ulungbek Rozukulov; RoK Ambassador Park Noh-wan; Tanzanian Ambassador Mbelwa Brighton Kairuki; and head of the EU Delegation to Vietnam Pier Giorgio Federico Aliberti. At a reception for the diplomats following … [Read more...] about Party, State leader welcomes newly-accredited foreign ambassadors

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Politburo and the sub-committee in charge of compiling documents for the 13th National Party Congress held a conference in Hanoi on September 27 to collect former Party and State leaders’ feedback on the draft political report and the draft report on the 10-year implementation of the Political Platform 2011. Attending the event were former Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, former Politburo member and President Tran Duc Luong, former Politburo members and National Assembly (NA) Chairmen Nguyen Van An and Nguyen Sinh Hung, former Vice Presidents, Deputy Prime Ministers and NA Vice Chairmen. Speaking at the event, Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also head of the sub-committee, asked former Party and State leaders to give their opinions to the two documents, especially major issues in the draft political report. Participants offered … [Read more...] about Former leaders give feedback on draft political report