The Minister said that foreign affairs is one of the fields that bears many outstanding marks of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. In addition to inheriting and promoting the foreign affairs achievements of previous periods and creatively applying Ho Chi Minh's diplomatic ideology, our Party's resolutions, conclusions and directives on foreign affairs from the term of the Great Up to now, the 11th Congress has had many new developments in thinking, theory as well as the leadership and practical direction of foreign affairs of our Party headed by the General Secretary.
The diplomacy imbued with the identity of " Vietnamese bamboo " that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong repeatedly mentioned in articles and statements on foreign affairs is the most comprehensive and complete reflection of the core and throughout the philosophy, identity, viewpoints, ideas, guiding principles, basic tasks and implementation methods of Vietnam's foreign affairs and diplomacy, based on the foundation of cultural identity and core values. Vietnamese people, inheriting, applying and creatively developing Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's ideology, style and diplomatic art into the country's development conditions in the current period.
That identity is "solid root, sturdy trunk, flexible branches", steadfast in principles, but creative, clever, and flexible in strategy; solidarity, compassion but always resolute and persistent in protecting national interests.
A special thing in the Party's XIII term is that, for the first time in the history of Vietnam's foreign affairs, our Party organized a national foreign affairs conference and the Head of our Party wrote a separate book on foreign affairs. "Building and developing a comprehensive, modern Vietnamese foreign policy and diplomacy, imbued with the identity of 'Vietnamese bamboo'", deeply demonstrating the General Secretary's intellectual stature in contributing to the development of thinking, theorising and perfecting our Party's foreign policy.
Under the leadership and direction of the Party Central Committee, Politburo, and Secretariat headed by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the foreign affairs work of our Party and State has achieved many important results and achievements, has historical significance, becoming an impressive bright spot among the country's overall results and achievements.
Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, together with the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat, have properly handled foreign relations, assessed and forecasted the situation closely and accurately, "knowing yourself, knowing others" , "know the time, know the situation", to be flexible, "know the discipline, know the softness", "know the advance, know the retreat" on the basis of ensuring the highest national interests. One of the foreign policy "legacies" bearing the mark of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is that we not only maintain "warm inside, quiet outside" to develop the country in the context of international fluctuations. large and very complex, but also raised to new heights with new quality, new strategic connotations, higher political reliability and more practical and effective cooperation in relations with neighboring countries and other countries. leading powers, important partners and traditional friends as well as Vietnam's new prestige and position on both bilateral and multilateral levels. These achievements have contributed to affirming, "our country has never had the same fortune, potential, position and international prestige as it does today".
Directly participating in high-level foreign affairs activities of our Party and State, the General Secretary always leaves international partners and friends with a good impression of a dynamically developing Vietnam, rich in culture. , promoting justice, righteousness, respecting international law...
