
On the afternoon of October 8, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended and spoke on the ASEAN Enterprise and Funding Summit (ASEAN BIS) 2024 – Photograph: KHUNH TRUNG
Along with assembly leaders of ASEAN member nations, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh additionally met with senior leaders of ASEAN companions together with: Canada, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand.
3 main contributions of Vietnam
Throughout 4 days of attending the ASEAN Summit sequence in Vientiane (Laos), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and delegation members attended greater than 60 bilateral and multilateral actions.
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of International Affairs Bui Thanh Son mentioned that the Prime Minister’s statements at conferences with the theme “Strengthening connectivity and self-reliance” not solely deepen the connotation of “connection” and “self-reliant” within the present context, but in addition suggests new pondering, approaches and growth concepts for the area stemming from sensible necessities.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Vientiane on the morning of October 11 – Photograph: DOAN BAC
Based on the pinnacle of the Ministry of International Affairs, Vietnam has 3 main contributions at this convention.
First, promote self-reliance in any respect ranges. The Prime Minister affirmed that solidarity, unity in range, self-reliance and strategic autonomy are conditions for ASEAN to be secure within the face of change.
In implementing relations with companions, ASEAN wants to take care of its central position, preserve independence, strategic stability and principled conduct. In worldwide and regional points, ASEAN must be steadfast in its principled positions, based mostly on worldwide legislation, the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), and promote a typical voice.
In that spirit, the Prime Minister shared and promoted ASEAN’s principled stance on the East Sea difficulty, emphasizing resolving disputes by peaceable means, absolutely and successfully implementing the Declaration on the Conduct of events within the East Sea (DOC) and shortly full a substantive and efficient Code of Conduct within the East Sea (COC) in accordance with worldwide legislation, together with the 1982 United Nations Conference on the Legislation of the Sea.
The Prime Minister additionally requested companions to assist ASEAN’s stance and efforts to construct the East Sea right into a sea of ​​peace, stability, cooperation and sustainable growth.
Second, strategic connection in all elements. Particularly, connecting a typical imaginative and prescient, contributing responsibly, constructively and with goodwill in the direction of peace, stability and prosperity; Connecting growth cooperation, selling new development drivers resembling digital economic system, inexperienced economic system, round economic system, sharing economic system, secure and resilient provide chain; and connecting folks, enhancing exchanges, attachment, and understanding, additional solidifying the identification of the ASEAN Group in addition to the inspiration of pleasant relations between ASEAN and its companions.
Third, be prepared for the brand new section of ASEAN’s growth.
Going through the fast and complicated actions of the present world and regional scenario, the Prime Minister highlighted three duties for ASEAN to steadily develop and step ahead into the longer term.
ASEAN wants constructive pondering, breakthrough concepts and drastic actions to advertise its pioneering and main position.
ASEAN must be a bridge connecting regional priorities with world priorities, creating complementarity and resonance in efforts to make sure peace, safety and growth.
ASEAN must encourage broader participation and contributions of teams and genders, together with parliaments, companies, and youth, to the group constructing course of.
On this event, the Prime Minister introduced that Vietnam will proceed to arrange the ASEAN Future Discussion board 2025 with the will to contribute extra to regional cooperation and connectivity.
Assembly with all senior Lao leaders

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Normal Secretary and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith on the assembly on October 8 – Photograph: TTXVN
Based on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Affairs Bui Thanh Son, on the event of attending a sequence of conferences in Vientiane, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had conferences with all senior Lao leaders. The exchanges between Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Laos had been extraordinarily honest and substantive, demonstrating the best degree of belief and attachment.
The Prime Minister as soon as once more affirmed that Vietnam particularly values ​​and provides the best precedence to the nice relationship, particular solidarity and complete cooperation with Laos, at all times striving to nurture and convey Vietnam relations South – Laos continues to develop sustainably, more and more deepening.
“Lao senior leaders sincerely thank Vietnam’s honest assist and neutral and clear assist for Laos prior to now reason for nationwide liberation wrestle in addition to present nationwide growth. now.
The 2 sides agreed to proceed strengthening cooperation and efficient connection in fields, together with transportation infrastructure, commerce – funding, agriculture, high-tech livestock, and making certain meals safety. actual. Give attention to coaching high-quality human assets, tourism, people-to-people exchanges, digital transformation, inexperienced transformation, round economic system, and coordinate to revive and shield monuments marking particular solidarity relations. completely different from Vietnam – Laos” – Mr. Bui Thanh Son acknowledged.
As well as, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh extremely appreciated the position of Laos because the chair of ASEAN 2024, affirming that Vietnam is able to strengthen coordination with Laos and different nations to make the conferences profitable, contributing to advertise the status of Laos and the solidarity and consensus of ASEAN.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had conferences with the Prime Minister of Laos and Cambodia, collectively emphasizing the traditions and values ​​of solidarity between Vietnam – Laos – Cambodia within the context of advanced and fluctuating world conditions. unpredictable. In addition to agreeing to proceed coordinating to make the three nations’ cooperation increasingly sensible and efficient, assembly the sensible wants of the three nations and in accordance with growth wants within the new interval.

The Prime Ministers of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had a working breakfast on October 9, attending the forty fourth and forty fifth ASEAN Summit in Vientiane – Photograph: DUONG GIANG
Leaders of nations worth Vietnam’s place

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and United Nations Secretary Normal António Guterres had been comfortable to fulfill once more in Laos – Photograph: DOAN BAC
Additionally on this event, in line with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Affairs Bui Thanh Son, the Prime Minister had conferences, conferences and contacts with all senior leaders of nations and worldwide organizations.
At conferences, leaders of nations and worldwide organizations affirmed the significance of relations with Vietnam, appreciating Vietnam’s rising place and position within the worldwide enviornment.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and senior leaders of nations had intensive and complete exchanges, reviewing the implementation of agreements, and exchanging measures to strengthen relations in conventional fields, together with with economic system – commerce – funding, safety – protection, tradition – training, people-to-people exchanges and increasing cooperation into new fields resembling digital transformation, inexperienced transformation, round economic system, semiconductors, synthetic intelligence (AI), opening up alternatives to make cooperation between Vietnam and different nations more and more profound, efficient and substantive.