Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung has highlighted Viet Nam’s 2025 diplomatic achievements and their contributions to the country’s strategic goals in his article recently published to mark the New Year 2026.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV) To Lam and his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly, along with a high-ranking delegation of Viet Nam, left Wattay International Airport in Vientiane on December 2 evening, successfully concluding their two-day state visit to Laos.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee To Lam and General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith co-chaired a high-level meeting between the two Parties in Vientiane on December 2.

Timor Leste Ambassador to Viet Nam Joao Pereira has expressed his confidence that Viet Nam will remain a key economic, political, and socio-cultural pillar of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

In 2022, Vietnam has successfully and comprehensively implemented the following objectives and tasks: Focusing on disease prevention and control, while promoting socio-economic recovery and development; becoming a bright spot “in the grey picture” of the global economy. The year 2023 is forecasted to be more difficult as the global economy declines.