Viet Nam’s proposals placed the highest priority on ensuring a peaceful and stable environment conducive for continued sustainable development and improving the well-being and happiness of the ASEAN people. They were praised by member states and incorporated into the core contents of the ASEAN Leaders’ Statement on the response to the Middle East crisis.

Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Hoang Giang said that the Vietnamese delegation made important contributions to the summit’s success, reflecting the foreign policy orientation set out by the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, which continues to place ASEAN at the centre of Viet Nam’s regional engagement, as well as its commitment to proactive, positive and responsible contributions to ASEAN Community-building process.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung’s trip not only contributed to the overall success of the ASEAN Summit, but also left many outstanding marks of Vietnam as an active, proactive and responsible member of ASEAN.

The trip was considered a success both multilaterally and bilaterally, leaving a positive impression of Viet Nam’s proactive, active and responsible spirit, as well as its substantive and effective contributions to ASEAN’s common work and efforts to promote ties with member states.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung emphasised the need to concentrate resources on ensuring essential security needs, including energy security, food security, and human security, including the ratification and effective implementation of the ASEAN Petroleum Security Agreement, and the substantive implementation of the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation 2026–2030, the ASEAN Power Grid, and the ASEAN Gas Pipeline network.

On the morning of May 7, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung led a high-level Vietnamese delegation to Cebu, the Philippines, beginning his trip to attend the 48th ASEAN Summit at the invitation of, President of the Republic of the Philippines Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., Chair of ASEAN 2026.

At the invitation of President of the Republic of the Philippines Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr, the ASEAN Chair in 2026, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung led a high-level Vietnamese delegation to attend the 48th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, Philippines, from May 7 to 8.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung’s attendance at the 48th ASEAN Summit and related summits from May 7 to 8 in Cebu, the Philippines, conveys a clear message of Viet Nam’s commitment to the ASEAN Community-building process through a proactive and responsible spirit, and through substantive contributions to the bloc’s common work, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Hoang Giang.

Viet Nam will work closely with fellow ASEAN members to effectively advance the priorities of the 2026 Chairmanship Year and the ASEAN Community Vision 2045, aiming to build a resilient, dynamic, innovative and people-centred community, according to Ambassador Ton Thi Ngoc Huong, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to ASEAN.