(PLO)-In 2023, Vietnam has made important contributions, successfully fulfilling its membership obligations in implementing the Community Building Master Plans, presiding over many initiatives and activities, and ensuring Successfully undertake many important responsibilities.
On the morning of December 27, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet chaired an interdisciplinary meeting summarizing ASEAN cooperation, Vietnam’s participation in 2023 and directions for 2024. Nearly 80 delegates representing the Ministries, departments and branches participated in the conference.
ASEAN completes its vision to 2045
Reviewing ASEAN’s activities over the past year, Deputy Minister Do Hung Viet affirmed that ASEAN will continue to have a successful 2023 with many outstanding marks. This is especially meaningful in the context that ASEAN is strongly affected by many complex and unpredictable fluctuations in the international and regional environment.
Faced with the intertwining movement of opportunities and challenges, ASEAN has demonstrated its ability to flexibly adapt and gradually adjust to proactively grasp and take advantage of new trends to serve the goal of sustainable development. Initiatives and frameworks such as the Carbon Neutral Strategy, the ASEAN Blue Ocean Economic Framework, the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement, and the electric vehicle ecosystem in the region are innovative steps of ASEAN, both in thinking and action, to shape and lead new potential areas of cooperation in the region.
Another outstanding result in 2023 is that ASEAN basically completes the ASEAN Community Vision to 2045 with the orientation of building a dynamic, creative, self-reliant and people-centered ASEAN. ASEAN’s foreign relations also recorded strong and substantive developments in cooperation between ASEAN and its partners, including ASEAN establishing a comprehensive strategic partnership with Japan, upgrading it to a strategic partnership. strategy with Canada.
Vietnam has successfully completed many common tasks
Summarizing Vietnam’s participation over the past year, Deputy Minister Do Hung Viet welcomed ministries and branches for promoting the spirit of initiative, positivity, responsibility, and creativity, making practical contributions to ASEAN’s success. , has important implications for the country’s overall foreign policy achievements.
Vietnam’s views, proposals and initiatives meet the common concerns and interests of countries and regions, contributing to strengthening solidarity and the central role of ASEAN, strengthening regional cooperation and connectivity. , affirming the image of a peaceful and friendly Vietnam, constructive and responsible, always doing our best for the common work of the Community.
Sharing ASEAN’s results, representatives of ministries and branches said political and security cooperation contributes to ensuring a peaceful and secure environment favorable for development; Economic, trade, and investment cooperation consolidates a solid foundation in relations between countries, maintaining ASEAN’s central position in the regional multilateral network; Socio-cultural cooperation deepens the spirit of attachment, care, and sharing, aiming to realize equitable and inclusive development, leaving no one behind.
In the overall results of ASEAN, Vietnam has made important contributions, successfully fulfilling its membership obligations in implementing the Community Building Master Plans, chairing many initiatives and activities, and taking on responsibility. Successfully held many important responsibilities such as Chairman of the ASEAN Information Ministers’ Meeting, ASEAN Disaster Management Ministers’ Meeting, ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting on education, Senior Officials’ Meeting on social welfare and development. Development and co-chairing of the ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting Expanded Working Group on peacekeeping… Many Vietnamese ideas such as the Corporate Sustainable Development Index have been spread and become common projects of ASEAN.
Also at the meeting, the ASEAN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the National Secretariat for ASEAN, updated information for ministries and branches on the Politburo’s issuance of Conclusion No. 59-KL/TW dated August 8. 8/2023 on Vietnam’s orientation to join ASEAN until 2030. This is the first comprehensive guiding document of the Politburo on Vietnam’s participation since Vietnam joined ASEAN in 1995, aiming to unify unanimously aware of the importance of ASEAN, oriented to improve efficiency and promote Vietnam’s role in ASEAN, ensuring that joining ASEAN brings practical benefits to people, localities and businesses.
Many groups of solutions will be deployed synchronously, including reviewing and perfecting institutions and laws, improving inter-ministerial and sectoral coordination mechanisms, strengthening training and fostering, and improving capacity. resources for departments in charge of ASEAN in ministries and branches. On that basis, the meeting agreed on the need to amend Regulation 142 on operations and coordination among participating ASEAN agencies on the basis of continuity and development to meet the requirements and tasks set out in new situation.
Delegates discussed the orientations, priorities, and focus of participating in ASEAN in 2024, agreeing to continue promoting the spirit of initiative, positivity, and responsibility in participating in ASEAN cooperation, coordination and support. Supporting the Chairman of Laos in the ASEAN Year 2024 with the theme “ASEAN: Promoting connectivity and self-reliance”, contributing to building strategies to implement the ASEAN Community Vision 2045, contributing to strengthening solidarity and unity and the central role of ASEAN, continuing to integrate and promote issues of our priorities and concerns.
Speaking at the end of the meeting, regarding future work, Deputy Minister Do Hung Viet suggested that ministries and branches continue to coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to soon complete the master plan to join ASEAN in 2024, and organize Successful ASEAN Future Forum aims to share ideas about ASEAN’s development, effectively deploy tasks and solutions according to Conclusion 59-KL/TW of the Politburo on Vietnam’s orientation to participate in ASEAN by 2030. This includes strengthening the apparatus, completing regulations and coordination processes in participating in ASEAN, thereby improving the quality and effectiveness of Vietnam’s ASEAN cooperation, commensurate with its tasks and status. new picture.
Ngoc Diep
