Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son said that the most important thing in economic diplomacy is to exploit the potential for cooperation with partners with whom Vietnam has upgraded and upgraded relations, and at the same time create create new resources for the country's socio-economic development.
From the beginning of the year until now, economic diplomacy has been implemented methodically and effectively, contributing substantially to socio-economic development. This is shown in 3 contents.
One is to contribute to maintaining a favorable foreign affairs situation for the country's development and promoting the attraction of resources to serve growth drivers.
Second, contribute to consolidating growth momentum through reviewing and implementing recently signed trade liberalization agreements, upgrading existing agreements and proactively negotiating new agreements.
Third is to actively support localities and businesses, drastically remove obstacles in projects with the spirit of taking people, localities and businesses as the service center.
In dozens of high-level foreign affairs activities from the beginning of 2024 until now, economic content continues to become the focus, bringing about specific and substantive results, signing many commitments and cooperation agreements with partners. partners.
Most recently, during the State visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam, departments, ministries, branches, central and local levels of Vietnam and China signed 14 cooperation documents. .
Economic diplomacy has actively supported connecting, promoting, promoting, removing trade barriers, promoting new directions, thereby expanding markets for industries, sectors, localities and businesses. . Vietnam welcomes many large corporations and businesses into Vietnam such as NVIDIA, Apple, Intel, Google, Inforsys, Siemens...
Along with that, continue to take full advantage of the network of 16 FTAs signed with 60 partners, promote negotiations to upgrade many current FTAs and speed up FTA negotiations with new partners.
Right from the first months of the year, Minister Bui Thanh Son directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to focus on implementing a number of tasks to promote economic diplomacy.
The first is to direct representative agencies to continue supporting provinces and businesses to participate in trade promotion activities, tourism investment, and promotion of strong products in the Middle East and Africa region. , especially the Gulf region.
Second, continue to support the export of strong products, especially wooden products, to Middle East and African markets. Calling for investment from investment funds in the Middle East region in areas that they are very interested in.
The above results of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - under the leadership of Minister Bui Thanh Son - were praised and welcomed by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh during the Prime Minister's Conference with heads of Vietnamese representative agencies. Vietnam abroad to promote economic diplomacy to promote economic growth in the last 6 months of 2024 and the following years, held last July.
