This is President Cuong’s first working visit to attend a multilateral diplomatic event at the world’s largest and most important forum, which took place as the UN marks its 80th anniversary. At the same time, it also marks two years since Viet Nam and the US established a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and coincides with the 30th anniversary of the normalisation of bilateral relations.
During the trip, the State leader attended the high-level meeting marking the 80th anniversary of the UN, delivered important speeches at the UNGA High-Level General Debate and the Special High-Level Event on Climate Action. He also held bilateral meetings with leaders of international organisations and participating countries.
At the general debate, the President delivered a keynote address with the message of upholding the values of peace and driving transformation for a sustainable future. He underlined that over the past eight decades, the UN has embodied humanity’s common aspiration for peace, cooperation, and development, grounded in the universal values of human rights, national independence, equality, democracy, and social progress.
Sharing Viet Nam’s story of revival from the ruins of war to its current aspirations to become a prosperous, strong, and happy nation, President Cuong affirmed Viet Nam’s determination to join hands with all nations in shouldering common responsibilities, overcoming challenges, and advancing bold transformations toward a peaceful, stable, prosperous, and sustainable world for all people.
On the sidelines, he held a series of bilateral meetings with leaders such as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, UNGA 80 President Annalena Baerbock, Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker, Paraguayan President Santiago Pena Palacios, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He also met with US leaders, executives of major US corporations, longtime friends and leading scholars; attended a gathering with Vietnamese and US war veterans who fought in the war in Viet Nam; met with staff of Viet Nam’s representative missions and representatives of the Vietnamese community; and hosted a celebration marking the 80th anniversary of Viet Nam’s National Day in New York. These activities affirmed Viet Nam’s commitment to deepening ties with the US, especially in economy, trade, investment, and science-technology, and to accelerating the implementation of the high-level agreements and commitments.
With messages of peace, reconciliation, healing, responsibility, and joint efforts to build a sustainable future, the President’s trip was a great success both multilaterally and bilaterally. It left a strong impression of Viet Nam’s role, position, and substantive contributions to addressing global issues, as well as in promoting Viet Nam–US relations and Viet Nam’s relations with other countries, thereby contributing to peace and development in the regions and the world.
