Speaking at the meeting, Politburo member and President Luong Cuong welcomed the Ambassadors, who have arranged time and work to attend this very meaningful meeting.
Through the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and listening to the opinions of the Ambassadors, the President highly appreciated the sense of responsibility, great efforts, and high determination of the Ambassadors and staff of the Embassy in promoting Vietnam's relations with friendly African countries; and congratulated the positive results that the representative agencies have achieved in the past time.
The President assessed that in recent years, the relationship between Vietnam and Middle Eastern - African countries has had clear changes, high-level delegation exchanges have been vibrant; and said that there is a lot of room for cooperation and expanding Vietnam's interests in the region.
The President said that this State visit to Africa and the recent visit of National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man to Senegal and Morocco conveyed a message to African friends about Vietnam's determination to promote traditional friendship, create a breakthrough, and join African countries in entering a new era, commensurate with the development needs and new attitudes of both sides.
The President requested the Ambassadors to continuously update and closely follow the Party's foreign policies and guidelines, strongly and comprehensively implement major documents of orientation in the foreign affairs sector, especially Resolution 59-NQ/TW of the Politburo on international integration in the new situation; at the same time, promote research, strategic forecasting, proactive, timely reporting and advising to avoid falling into a passive and surprised situation due to the complex and unpredictable developments of the current regional and international situation.
Emphasizing that Vietnam and its African friends have valuable assets as support and assistance to each other in the past struggle for national liberation, the President noted that the Ambassadors must continue to foster and strengthen political trust between Vietnam and African countries, considering this a solid foundation for expanding cooperation in other fields, demonstrating sincerity to enter a new stage of development together.
The President suggested that the Embassies pay close attention and be more proactive in community work and citizen protection, make every effort to help overseas Vietnamese, enhance the position of our community in the host country as well as closely coordinate with the local government in citizen protection and support for Vietnamese enterprises. Along with that, the Ambassadors and the staff of the representative agency continued to unite, build a clean and strong internal affair, uphold the spirit of overcoming difficulties, promote a sense of responsibility, proactiveness, creativity, and successfully complete assigned political tasks.
The President affirmed that the Party and State always pay attention to and create favorable conditions for mechanisms and policies, meeting working conditions as well as taking care of the material and spiritual life of cadres and employees; ensuring treatment for members of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad in accordance with the country's potential, position and economic conditions in the new situation.
