On September 21, 2024, General Secretary and President To Lam and his wife, along with a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, left for the United States to attend the Future Summit, the 79th High-Level Session of the United Nations General Assembly, and work.
This is the first working trip to the US to attend multilateral foreign affairs activities and work by the General Secretary and President in his new position. This is also the first time a General Secretary and President of our country has directly attended high-level meetings at the United Nations General Assembly. Therefore, the trip is of great significance, an opportunity to affirm Vietnam's foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization and diversification.
Vietnam is a reliable partner of the United Nations.
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son said that over the past 50 years, the relationship between Vietnam and the United Nations has been developing positively, increasingly deepening, and constantly being consolidated and strengthened.
During the stages of national reconstruction, post-war recovery, breaking the embargo and gradually integrating into the world, we have had the companionship and assistance of the United Nations. Most recently, during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations has promptly supported Vietnam in controlling the pandemic and recovering the economy.
Vietnam has become a reliable, active and responsible partner of the international community as well as the United Nations. We have participated more and more proactively and actively, and made more and more substantial and extensive contributions in terms of ideas, human resources and resources in all the pillars of the United Nations' activities on peacekeeping, security and development cooperation; including taking the lead in successfully implementing the Millennium Development Goals since the 2000s and currently actively implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, actively participating in the United Nations' major priorities on peace, development and ensuring human rights...
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son emphasized that Vietnam is also trusted and has high expectations from the international community, and has successfully held many important positions at the United Nations.
United Nations leaders always appreciate Vietnam's role and contributions and hope that Vietnam will continue to play an increasingly active role in the United Nations' priority areas.
Vietnam - US relations develop positively
Regarding Vietnam - US relations, after one year of implementing the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, cooperation between the two countries has achieved many positive results in the following areas:
Firstly, contacts and delegation exchanges have been taking place actively at all channels and levels. In addition to maintaining existing annual dialogue mechanisms, the two sides have successfully launched new annual dialogue mechanisms such as the Foreign Ministers' Dialogue, Economic Dialogue and Security and Law Enforcement Dialogue, thereby concretizing the commitments of the two sides in the 2023 Joint Statement.
Second, economy - trade - investment continues to be an important driving force for bilateral relations. Bilateral trade turnover in the first 8 months of 2024 reached nearly 88 billion USD, up 22%. Many large enterprises of the two countries are actively expanding investment in each other's markets, creating a strong intertwined interest.
Third, security and defense cooperation continues to be effectively implemented, in which cooperation in overcoming war consequences continues to be a priority and an important pillar in the bilateral relationship, achieving many substantive results; security and law enforcement cooperation is increasingly strengthened...
Fourth, the two sides continue to coordinate closely at important multilateral mechanisms and forums as well as substantive cooperation to respond to global issues.
In addition, with remaining differences, the two sides will continue to strengthen dialogue in a frank, constructive spirit and pay attention to each other's legitimate interests - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister Bui Thanh Son said.
