Download Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung in an interview with the press From May 27 to June 1, 2026, General Secretary and President To Lam, his wife and a high-ranking delegation of our Party and State had an official visit to Thailand, a state-level visit to Singapore, a keynote speech at the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue and a state-level visit to the Philippines.
The welcoming ceremony with many exceptions, the goal was achieved at a high level According to the Ministry Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung, the visit had a very special meaning and was a great success, achieving the set goals at a high level. This is also the first visit of General Secretary and President To Lam to ASEAN countries after the great success of the 14th National Party Congress and the election of the 16th National Assembly and Peoples Councils at all levels for the 2026-2031 term. It is even more meaningful when the visit takes place in the context of Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines celebrating 50 years of establishing diplomatic relations. At the same time, this is also the period when the Philippines is the Chair of ASEAN 2026, Singapore is the Chair of ASEAN 2027 and Vietnam is the high-level host of APEC 2027.
Therefore, this visit has opened up a new direction of cooperation between Vietnam and all three partners when Vietnam and all three partners are entering a new stage of development with new requirements and in the context of complex international and regional developments. Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the General Secretary, President, Spouse and our high-ranking delegation had rich and substantive working programs, especially extensive talks, meetings and exchanges with senior leaders of Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines, had working meetings, participated in important forums with corporations, businesses, research institutes, studied typical science and technology facilities and met with the Vietnamese community in the three countries. All three countries gave the Delegation a respectful, thoughtful, warm, and sincere welcome with the highest level of welcoming ceremonies, with many exceptions; The Prime Minister of Thailand and his wife went to the plane to see off the General Secretary, the President and his wife. Both the President and the Prime Minister of Singapore had talks, exchanges and entertained General Secretary and President To Lam. Within the framework of the visit, an important highlight was the opening speech of the General Secretary and President at the Shangri-La Dialogue - a prestigious and influential international security and defense forum in the Asia-Pacific region with the participation of about 500 delegates from more than 40 countries. The introductory speech of the General Secretary and President on international and regional peace and security clearly expressed the Party and States views on the current world situation, the challenges posed and important recommendations and proposals, which were recognized and highly appreciated by the delegations attending the Conference and the international community. It can be clearly seen that the visit boldly conveyed Vietnams development message to important partner countries in the region; clearly shows Vietnams thinking, needs, and development orientation in the new period; continue to consistently affirm the policy of always attaching importance to relations with neighboring countries and ASEAN countries, demonstrating Vietnams proactive, positive and responsible role in strengthening solidarity with ASEAN countries, enhancing the central role of ASEAN, maintaining peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region. The message of peace was convincingly conveyed in the introductory speech of the General Secretary and President at the Shangri-La Dialogue.
The speech received special attention from public opinion inside and outside the region and received very positive feedback; boldly demonstrating Vietnams role as a responsible member and a reputable voice in regional and global peace, security and development issues. Another outstanding result of the visit is that political trust between Vietnam and the three countries has been strongly strengthened. We have promoted the quality of the comprehensive strategic partnership with Thailand, raised the level of strategic cooperation with Singapore through the strategic dialogue mechanism between the two ruling parties, and raised the framework of relations with the Philippines to an Enhanced Strategic Partnership.
The leaders agreed to establish new mechanisms, demonstrating political trust, increasing the depth of relations and creating a framework to promote in-depth cooperation;
The focus is on the Action Program to implement the Vietnam-Thailand Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for the period 2026-2031 and the Strategic Dialogue mechanism between the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Singapore Peoples Action Party. We have comprehensively consolidated and promoted dynamic and effective cooperation with the three countries across all channels of the Party, State, National Assembly and people-to-people exchanges; Increase cohesion and connection between Vietnam and other countries and between ASEAN countries, concretize the content, promote breakthroughs and new qualitative developments in various fields.areas of cooperation between us and the three countries in defense - security, economy, trade, investment, science, technology and innovation, culture, education - training, tourism, and people-to-people exchanges. At the same time, cooperation in new fields with great potential and strategic significance for our countrys development has been expanded, especially in the fields of artific.

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