NDO/VNA – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his visiting Japanese counterpart Suga Yoshihide agreed on major orientations and measures to further deepen bilateral extensive strategic partnership, during their talks in Hanoi on October 19. 

NDO - Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and his spouse have arrived in Hanoi, beginning an official visit to Vietnam from October 18-20 at the invitation of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his spouse. 

NDO/VNA – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on October 18 offered sympathies to his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen on the heavy human and property losses caused by serious floods in the country. 

NDO/VNA – Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese mission at the UN, on October 16 reaffirmed Vietnam’s commitment to working with other UN member states toward the successful operation of the Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (Fourth Committee) and advancing the decolonialisation agenda. 

NDO/VNA - Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and his wife will pay an official visit to Vietnam from October 18-20. 

NDO/VNA - The Vietnam - Germany Friendship Association held a ceremony to celebrate its 35th founding anniversary in Hanoi on October 16. 

NDO/VNA - Hoang Binh Quan, Head of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, cabled a message of solidarity to the Sao Paulo forum on the occasion of its virtual event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the victory of Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity political alliance in the 1970 Chilean presidential election. 

NDO/VNA - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh highlighted the traditional friendship between Vietnam and Hungary during talks with the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, in Hanoi on October 16. 

NDO/VNA - Vietnamese Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (ROK) Nguyen Vu Tung presented his credentials to ROK President Moon Jae-in in Seoul on October 16. 

NDO/VNA – The Vietnamese government has presented medical supplies, including 325,000 medical masks worth US$20,000, to Myanmar amidst COVID-19. 

NDO/VNA - The 17th annual Southeast Asia Red Cross and Red Crescent Leadership Meeting kicked off in Hanoi on October 14 via video conference.  

NDO - Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong on October 14 cabled a congratulatory message to Emomali Rahmon for his re-election as President of the Republic of Tajikistan. 

NDO/VNA – Leaders of parliaments sent congratulations to National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on the Vietnamese NA’s successful hosting of the 41st General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-41) from September 8-10.