Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on March 9 chaired a conference on the implementation of the Government’s action programme materialising the Directive No.15 by the Party Central Committee's Secretariat on economic diplomacy and its key tasks in 2023.  The conference was held right after the Government issued action programme for the 2022-2026 period in response to the Secretariat’s Directive No. 15-CT/TW dated August 8, 2022 on economic diplomacy for national development by 2030.

Vietnam’s major economic balances were maintained in the first eight months of this year despite a slew of difficulties, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told a Government meeting that opened in Hanoi on September 6.