The 15th National Assembly (NA) fulfilled the entire agenda of its first extraordinary session, lasting for four and a half days, and came to success.

Main tasks, solutions for socio-economic development in 2020

The first extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly, which opened on January 4 and will close on January 11, aims to decide on timely fiscal and monetary policies for the implementation of the socio-economic recovery and development programme and remove legal obstacles for development.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has selected top 10 international events that shaped the world in 2021.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc is on a two-day State visit to Cambodia. The visit from Dec. 21-22 is made at the invitation of King Norodom Sihamoni.

Vietnam and India established their diplomatic relations in 1972 and upgraded the ties to comprehensive strategic partnership in September 2016. They are working to implement an action programme materialising the partnership for 2021-2023. They always support each other and regularly exchange delegation across all levels, particularly high-level ones.

To date, Vietnam has set up diplomatic ties with 189 nations, had economic and trade ties with over 230 countries and territories, and established strategic partnership and comprehensive partnership with 30 countries.

The official visit by Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue to the Republic of Korea (RoK) starting December 12 is viewed as an opportunity to lift the countries’ strategic cooperative partnership to a new height, towards bringing two-way trade to 100 billion USD in a balanced, sustainable and effective manner.

Chairman of the Lao National Assembly Saysomphone Phomvihane started a three-day official visit to Vietnam on December 6 at the invitation of Vietnamese NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s official visit to Russia from November 29 to December 2, which is be made at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, is expected to deepen the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership.

Accomplish green growth, thereby contributing to the restructuring of the economy in conjunction with renewing the growth model, in order to achieve economic prosperity, environmental sustainability and social equality; strive towards a green and carbon-neutral economy; contribute to the realization of the goal to reduce global warming.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc will pay an official visit to Switzerland from November 25-29. The visit is made at the invitation of Swiss President Guy Parmelin. More than half a century, relations between Vietnam and Switzerland have developed strongly not only in politics and multilateral cooperation but also in trade, investment, science, culture, tourism and people-to-people exchange.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid an official visit to Japan from Nov. 22-25 at an invitation of his Japanese counterpart Kishida Fumio.

During the 23 years of its APEC membership, Vietnam has made active and proactive contributions to the forum, thereby helping to promote regional peace, stability, cooperation, and economic connectivity and maintain APEC’s role as a leading mechanism for economic connectivity in Asia-Pacific.

The APEC CEO Summit, one of the world’s premier business and government events in 2021, takes place in Auckland, New Zealand, on Nov. 11-12. State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivered pre-record speech at the discussion session on sustainable development and climate change on Nov. 11.