Successfully hosting WEF ASEAN, a focus of Vietnam’s foreign policy in 2018

The WEF ASEAN, scheduled to be held in Hanoi from September 11-13, is one of the major multilateral external relations activities to be held in Vietnam in 2018, with the participation of the many high-ranking leaders from the ASEAN member countries and other countries in the region, in addition to major international organisations and nearly 1,000 representatives from leading global corporations, and hundreds of international correspondents. The successful organisation of this event has been identified as a foreign policy focus of Vietnam in 2018, contributing to the concretisation of the Party and State guidelines in order to improve the quality and efficiency of multilateral foreign affairs, as well as make practical contributions to the ASEAN Community building process, and further enhance Vietnam’s position in the region and in the international arena. Vietnam is a reliable and preferred partner of WEF in the region Since Vietnam and the WEF began their cooperation in 1989, the WEF has been an important forum that has contributed to the socio-economic development and international integration of Vietnam. Vietnam always attaches great importance to cooperating with the WEF and has actively participated in and made outstanding contributions and initiatives to the prestigious global forum. In 2010, as the ASEAN Chair, Vietnam successfully hosted the World Economic Forum on East Asia (predecessor of the ASEAN WEF). In 2016, at the initiative of Vietnam, the first WEF on the Mekong region was held in Hanoi to connect and promote the Mekong region with the world’s largest corporations. Vietnam… [Read full story]