The following is his full Lunar New Year message.
“Dear compatriots, comrades and soldiers nationwide and overseas Vietnamese!
The Year of the Horse has arrived. At this moment of transition from the old year to the new, I affectionately send to all compatriots, comrades and soldiers nationwide and overseas Vietnamese my best wishes for a peaceful, healthy, and happy New Year. I respectfully send to the peoples and international friends my best wishes for a new year of peace, happiness, and mutual development.
In the year of the Snake 2025, our country has gone through a period marked by many important events of special significance and achieved many proud accomplishments; at the same time, it was also a year in which our country had to go through many difficulties and challenges, with rapid, complicated, and unpredictable changes in the world and regional situation, as well as severe natural disasters that caused heavy damage, leaving much pain and loss for our people.
Thanks to unwavering resilience and a spirit of self-reliance and self-improvement, the entire Party, people, and army united and worked together, leveraging the strength of the entire nation and the assistance of international friends, we have achieved all the main goals set forth, with many outstanding achievements: Independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, and a peaceful environment have been maintained; economic growth has been among the world’s leading countries, becoming a upper-middle-income country; social welfare has been cared for; politics and society have been stable; national defence and security have been maintained and strengthened; foreign relations and international integration have been promoted; and Viet Nam’s position and prestige has continued to be enhanced in the international arena, creating an important foundation for the country to enter a new era of development.
Entering the New Year of the Horse 2026 – the first year of implementing the Resolution of the 14th National Congress of the Party, with a fervent patriotic tradition, a spirit of unity, unwavering will, and a strong aspiration for progress, the entire Party, people, and army will continue to unite, work together, seize every opportunity, overcome all difficulties and challenges, strongly promote self-confidence, self-reliance, self-strength, national pride, constantly innovate, and act decisively to successfully realise the goal of building a peaceful, independent, democratic, prosperous, civilised, and happy Viet Nam.
In the joyful spirit of welcoming the new Spring, once again, I wish all compatriots, comrades and soldiers nationwide and overseas Vietnamese a new year of new victories and successes; may our nation and people become increasingly prosperous, enjoying a life of abundance, freedom, and happiness.
Best regards!”
