According to the Government Authority of Information and Communications, on September 13, in New Delhi, India, Politburo Member, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung led a high-level Vietnamese delegation to attend the 18th BRICS Summit in the role of BRICS partner country.
Speaking at the opening of the Conference, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized that BRICS 2026's priority is to build a foundation of resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability, based on the approach of "taking people at the center, putting humanity first"; emphasized the requirement to transform cooperation priorities into specific, practical results that bring direct benefits to the people; and proposed that countries jointly recommend global governance reforms on three pillars: representativeness, responsiveness and law-making.
The conference discussed many international and regional issues of common concern, including reforming the global governance system and multilateral institutions, measures to maintain regional peace and stability, and promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
The leaders affirmed their determination to strengthen cooperation on the three pillars of politics - security, economy - finance, culture - people-to-people exchange, promoting peace, building a more representative and fair international order; agreed to promote multifaceted cooperation in trade, investment, finance - currency, science, technology, innovation, energy security, agriculture, food security, equitable energy transition, environmental protection, health and people-to-people exchange.
Leaders also emphasized the requirement to ensure the stability of the energy market and maintain uninterrupted energy flow from diverse sources of supply, while strengthening resilience and protecting essential energy infrastructure.
Highly appreciating the priorities "Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainable Development", Prime Minister Le Minh Hung proposed three major orientations for BRICS to promote its role in the coming period.
First, shifting from responding to fluctuations to proactively improving the resilience and self-reliance of economies through strengthening cooperation and supporting developing countries to consolidate flexible policy planning capacity, strategic governance and forecasting, improve labor productivity, self-reliance and dynamism of the economy, promptly prevent crises and proactively respond to shocks, especially in the economic, financial and cross-border challenges today.
Second, shifting from expanding the scale of cooperation to renewing traditional growth drivers in parallel with creating new, inclusive and sustainable growth drivers through strengthening policy coordination on trade and investment, opening up markets, promoting existing financial institutions and mobilizing more long-term resources at reasonable costs to help developing countries have a fairer access to capital sources for digital transformation and green transformation.
Third, transform cooperation opportunities in science and technology, innovation into specific programs and projects, serving the common interests of countries through joint research activities, human resource training, technology transfer, especially in highly contagious fields such as artificial intelligence, digital technology, smart agriculture, and clean energy.
The Prime Minister affirmed that Vietnam is ready to accompany BRICS with a sense of responsibility, goodwill and practical cooperation to build a peaceful, prosperous, sustainable and inclusive future for all nations and all people.
Prime Minister Le Minh Hung's speech was welcomed and highly appreciated by the host country and leaders of countries attending the Conference.
