PM outlines three priorities for ASEAN sub-regional cooperation
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended and delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the ASEAN High-Level Forum on Sub-Regional Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Inclusive Growth on November 30.
At the opening ceremony of the ASEAN High-Level Forum on Sub-Regional Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Inclusive Growth on November 30.(Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended and delivered a keynote speec⛄h at the openingof the ASEAN High-Level Forum on Sub-Regional Cooperation for SustainableDevelopment and Inclusive Growth on November 30.
The forum, the first of itskind, provided ASEAN member states and their partners, regional andinternational organisations, and business community with a chance to discussopportunities, challenges, potentials and orientations to promoting sub-regionaldevelopment cooperation. Speaking at the event, PMChinh stressed that due to ASEAN’s diversity, the development of sub-regions, which are all in important geographical locations, needs the bloc’s attention. Together with stepping upregional connectivity, it is important to connect areas and zones and ensurethat they catch up with the common development of the region, he said. He also called forstrengthened solidarity and close cooperation among regional countries, which he said is aprerequisite to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth.
PM Pham Minh Chinh at the event. (Photo: VNA)
The Vietnamese leaderpointed out three priorities that need to be promoted in sub-regionalcooperation, including making the people the centre, goal and driver of development,enhancing regional and global coordination to improve capacity for sustainable sub-regionaldevelopment, and strengthening infrastructure, economic and culturalconnectivity to narrow development gap, thus facilitating sub-regional economicdevelopment. Participants at the eventsuggested accelerating connectivity, promoting global integration and greengrowth, sustainably using and managing natural resources, responding todisasters and climate change, pushing digital transformation, developing human resourcesand bolstering tourism. They underscored the reciprocal complementarity between sub-regions’ development efforts andASEAN’s connectivity process, thus agreeing on a need to effectively capitaliseon cooperation potential of sub-regions to offer more opportunities toenterprises in and outside the region. Delegates spoke highly ofVietnam’s role and contributions to promoting sub-regional developmentcooperation for the goal of even and sustainable growth in the region. Ideas and recommendations at the eventwill be submitted to ASEAN leaders for consideration./.
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The programme to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses has achieved notable results, with nearly 263,000 housing units addressed to date, including 225,000 houses inaugurated and 38,000 under construction. Thirty-eight provinces and cities across the nation have already fulfilled their targets.
Stronger efforts and determination are required to achieve and surpass the set targets, especially in the eradication of makeshift and dilapidated houses nationwide, the acceleration of public investment disbursement, and the implementation of nationally important transport projects, PM Pham Minh Chinh noted.
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The Party chief underscored the need for the press to innovate relentlessly, evolve to keep pace with the country's development, transform into a truly professional, humanistic, and modern sector that serves the cause of the Party, the State, and the people on the path to national construction and development.
The UN Secretary-General praised Vietnam’s remarkable achievements in socio-economic development and international integration in recent years, noting that the country has emerged as a model in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), promoting international peace and security, and engaging in key UN processes.
Nghia affirmed that this is a milestone of special significance, affirming and honouring the the Vietnamese revolutionary press’s glorious tradition of 100 years of serving the revolutionary cause of the Party, serving the Fatherland, and serving the people.
The Party and State of Vietnam always attach great importance to and give top priority to the development of Vietnam–China relations. Vietnam is ready to work with the Chinese Party and State to further deepen the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and promote the building of the Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.
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At the opening ceremony of the ASEAN High-Level Forum on Sub-Regional Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Inclusive Growth on November 30.(Photo: VNA) 
PM Pham Minh Chinh at the event. (Photo: VNA) 
