VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son expressed Vietnam’s desires to foster the strategic partnerships with Singapore and Malaysia, during his separate meetings with the Fo

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son met with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM Retreat) in Malaysia on .

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Vietnam pledged to further to strengthening the Vietnam-Singapore Strategic Partnership, said Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Affairs Mr. Le Hoai Trung at meetings with Singaporean leaders.

Singapore’s foreign affairs minister was speaking after the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Langkawi on Jan 18 and 19, the first high-level meeting hosted by Malaysia as the bloc’s 2025 chair.

Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of its Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung is on a working visit to Singapore from January 7-11 at the invitation of Singaporean Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan.

Vietnam always attaches importance to and wishes to promote friendship and win-win multi-faceted cooperation with nations that are its traditional friends, including Uzbekistan, Deputy Foreign Minister Le Thi Thu Hang told her Uzbek counterpart Ilkhom Khaydarov during their phone talks on January 7.

LANGKAWI: Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan will attend the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Langkawi from Jan 18 to Jan 19. Dr Balakrishnan is attending at the ...

LANGKAWI-Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will be in Langkawi, Malaysia, from Jan 18 to 19, to attend the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Retreat. This is the first high-level Asean ...

Retreat at the Langkawi International Convention Centre, Mohamad met with Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bui Thanh Son. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry noted that both ministers underscored the importance of close collaboration in achieving the ASEAN Community Vision 2045.

The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM) in Malaysia marks Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Sugiono’s first attendance at an ASEAN meeting since his appointment to the post in October last year. The 46-year-old who serves under President Prabowo Subianto’s “Red and White Cabinet” will meet face-to-face with his counterparts during the first ministerial-level meeting under Malaysia’s ASEAN 2025 chairmanship.

LANGKAWI - Asean needs to double down on regional integration to enhance the grouping’s competitiveness, especially at a time when changes to geopolitical structures and economic policy are taking place worldwide, said Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.