NDO – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines Teodoro Lopez Locsin discussed bilateral and regional cooperation amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic over the phone on March 30. 

NDO/VNA – The Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore has liaised with relevant agencies of the host country to ask for help in visa extension and residence procedures for Vietnamese citizens who have been stranded in the country and wish to return home. 

NDO/VNA – Permanent Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on March 27 held second phone talks with leaders of foreign ministries of the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), India, Australia and New Zealand to discuss COVID-19 situation. 

NDO/VNA – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 27 hosted a reception for Cambodian Ambassador Chay Navuth, who has just begun his tenure in Vietnam. 

NDO/VNA – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 26 held separate phone talks with his Lao and Cambodian counterparts, during which the leaders discussed coordination between Vietnam and the two countries in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. 

NDO/VNA – Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc joined a G20 leaders’ video conference on COVID-19 prevention and control held on March 26 evening as an initiative by Saudi Arabia which holds the presidency of G20. 

NDO/VNA - Vietnam requests China to respect its sovereignty and take no actions that escalate tensions and complicate the situation, affecting peace and stability in the East Sea and the region, as well as efforts of countries in negotiations of a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC), spokesperson of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang said. 

NDO/VNA – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh presented the Friendship Order to Japanese outgoing ambassador Umeda Kunio during a ceremony in Hanoi on March 25. 

NDO/VNA – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received outgoing Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Umeda Kunio in Hanoi on March 24, highlighting the two countries’ stronger relations during the diplomat’s tenure. 

NDO/VNA – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc held talks with his Czech Republic counterpart Andrej Babis by telephone on March 23 to discuss their efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. 

NDO – Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong on March 23 cabled a congratulatory message to President of Pakistan Arif Alvi on the country’s 80th National Day (March 23, 1940-2020).