At the Brookings Institution, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son gave an important speech and answered many questions from the audience.
On March 26, 3, in Washington DC, within the framework of the official visit to the United States and co-chairing the first Vietnam-US Foreign Ministers' Dialogue, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son attended and speaking at a discussion on Vietnam-US relations at the Brookings Institution.
At the Brookings Institution, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son gave an important speech and answered many questions from the audience. The event was attended by Dr. Susanne Maloney, Vice President of the Brookings Institution, representatives of the government, Congress, Diplomatic Corps, research institutes, universities, and about 500 delegates including experts and scholars. , the business community and a number of press agencies in the United States attended in person and online.
In his speech, Minister Bui Thanh Son said that although the world is experiencing many profound and unpredictable changes, Asia - Pacific - Indian Ocean continues to be a dynamically developing region. growth engine of the world economy. Besides those bright spots, the region also has many potential security challenges, both traditional and non-traditional.
The Minister affirmed that, in that context, Vietnam consistently implements the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, multilateralization and diversification of foreign relations; proactively and actively integrate comprehensively and deeply into the world; a friend, a trusted partner and an active, responsible member of the international community. In particular, the Minister emphasized that Vietnam continues the Vietnamese bamboo diplomacy school of "solid roots, strong trunks, flexible branches" to respond to challenges and maintain a favorable foreign environment for land development. water. This is most clearly shown in the fact that up to now, Vietnam has had a Strategic Partnership and a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with all 5 permanent member countries of the United Nations Security Council.
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son answered questions from some guests. |
Minister Bui Thanh Son emphasized that to achieve the 2030 and 2045 development goals set by the 1995th Party Congress, in addition to efforts, initiative, self-reliance, and self-reliance, Vietnam needs an environment for foreign peace, stability and active cooperation and support from important partners, including the United States. In that spirit, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son affirmed that Vietnam always considers the United States as one of Vietnam's most important partners. The two countries have achieved many important results in bilateral relations since the normalization of relations in 2015 until now, especially the historic visit of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to the United States in 2023 and the visit of US President Joe Biden comes to Vietnam in XNUMX, upgrading Vietnam - US relations to comprehensive strategic partnership.
In the coming time, to further deepen the Vietnam-US Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son said that the two countries need to increase the exchange of high-level delegations and all levels, and promote political trust, especially respect for each other's political institutions; continue to consider economic - trade - investment cooperation as the focus; promote cooperation in science, technology and innovation including the semiconductor ecosystem; Consolidate people-to-people exchanges, educational and cultural cooperation and coordinate more closely at forums and multilateral cooperation mechanisms such as ASEAN, the United Nations, APEC, the Mekong-US partnership...
Answering questions from a number of guests, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son said that, despite the changing context of the situation, Vietnam will continue to be consistent with the foreign policy of the 13th National Party Congress, in that attaches great importance to relations with major countries; expressed that Vietnam wants major countries to have stable, healthy relationships and be able to cooperate to respond to common challenges such as climate change and food security. The Minister affirmed: Vietnam will continue to improve the business environment, creating favorable conditions for foreign businesses to invest and do business in Vietnam.
