Extensive integration considered as strategic orientation

Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh

Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh affirmed the point in his speech delivered at the ongoing12th National Party Congress on Saturday morning.

He said that the diplomatic achievements over the past five years affirmed the rightness of the diplomacy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation and development, diversification and multi-lateralization of external relations, proactive and active international integration.

Deputy PM, FM Minh also stressed that the global situation keeps changing fast, increasingly complicated and unexpectedly over the next five years. Meanwhile, Viet Nam has to fully realize commitments to the ASEAN Community , the World Trade Organization (WTO), and deploy new-generation free trade agreements.

Further international integration means the country has to take advantage of international commitments to expand market, reallocate and increase the effectiveness of resources and the competitiveness of the economy and businesses.

The country also needs to enhance the self-reliance of the economy, establish a higher status in the global and regional production and supply chain and strengthen the resilience of the economy.

To deepen international economic integration, the country needs to effectively employ rules and laws of international organizations to protect the legitimate rights of the State, businesses and Vietnamese nationals in external relations.

He took the occasion to put forward for central tasks for the coming years

Firstly, the diplomatic orientations, which will be approved at the 12th National Party Congress, will be synchronously deployed through enhancing the leadership of the Party on the international integration process and improving the effectiveness of the coordination among stakeholders, including localities.

Secondly, it is necessary to accelerate and deepen the partnership relations, especially strategic partnership, comprehensive partnership, ensure a peaceful and stable environment, and beef up relations in politics, economy, trade, investment, science and technology to facilitate national development and international integration process.

Thirdly, Viet Nam needs to strengthen the dissemination of signed international commitments so that all stakeholders will be deeply aware of challenges and opportunities of the international integration process in a bid to encourage their active engagement.

Fourthly, he also underlined the importance of improving the capacity of institutions and human resources for the international integration process, striving to raise the country’s degree of international integration to the high level of ASEAN countries.