Minister Nguyen Van Hung: ASEAN needs to further promote sports development

On the morning of October 16, the opening ceremony and the first session of the 8th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports took place in Hanoi. On the sidelines of the Conference, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung made assessments of Vietnam's role as host.

The first ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports (AMMS) was held in 2011 in Indonesia, agreeing on a mechanism to hold the event every two years. After 14 years, AMMS has become an important high-level forum, contributing to promoting cooperation, policy exchange and action in the field of sports among ASEAN member countries.

Deputy Prime Minister Mai Van Chinh, Minister Nguyen Van Hung, Deputy Minister Hoang Dao Cuong and delegates at the 8th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports

In 2025, under the rotation mechanism, Vietnam will officially take on the role of chairing the 8th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports (AMMS 8) and related meetings, including the 5th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports + Japan (AMMS + Japan 5) and the 2nd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports + China (AMMS + China 2).

Assessing Vietnam's role in hosting and organizing the Conference, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung emphasized that Vietnam affirms its proactive and responsible role in developing ASEAN sports: "As the host country, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is deeply aware that it must have initiatives to propose to ASEAN, so the topic was highly agreed upon by ASEAN secretaries of ASEAN countries and brought up for discussion among ASEAN countries."

The Minister emphasized that the ASEAN region needs to further promote sports development and contribute sports to sustainable development. In particular, focusing on some major topics such as: Awareness of sports; Sports creates development...

Specifically, Minister Nguyen Van Hung stated that with the awareness of Sports, it is necessary to have awareness and see that Sports is not only a sport to train and improve physical and human health, but it is also a connecting thread, lighting up solidarity between nations and ethnic groups.

Along with that, sports must create all development through close association with culture and tourism . From there, people have the maximum conditions to develop comprehensively in terms of intelligence and physical strength, becoming a high-quality human resource in the process of creating and developing for countries and for their own country.

"From that message, we hope that the contribution of sports will become bigger and clearer in the journey of sustainable sports development and it is also an opportunity for us to discuss more about sports economics. This is a new issue that in the future Vietnam wants to share in the development of our own country" - Minister Nguyen Van Hung emphasized.

Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/bo-truong-nguyen-van-hung-asean-can-thuc-day-hon-nua-viec-phat-trien-the-thao-20251016140204346.htm