Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who is also Head of the Steering Committee for the plan on reviewing the 10-year implementation of the Politburo’s Resolution 22-NQ/TW dated April 10, 2013, on international integration, chaired the committee’s first session on the morning of August 2, 2023.

PM Chinh noted that the Doi Moi (Renovation period) of Vietnam has been based on three pillars, including eliminating bureaucracy, implementing multiple ownership, and integration. Accordingly, the 11th-tenure Politburo issued Resolution 22-NQ/TW on April 10, 2013.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the session. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

The resolution marked an important shift in the Party and State’s mindset about Vietnam’s integration into the world, from “international economic integration” to “proactive, active, comprehensive, intensive, and effective integration into the world” in all aspects, including politics, national defense, security, culture, society, science and technology, education and training.

The 10-year implementation of the resolution has brought about big changes, elaborating that the awareness of the issue has been improved with international integration identified as a task of the entire people and political system; actions made in a more proactive, comprehensive, and intensive manner. Under the resolution, Vietnam has recorded historically significant achievements as Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong affirmed, “With all humility, we can now say that our country has never had such fortune, potential, international position and prestige as it does today.”

An overview of the session. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Accordingly, since 2013, Vietnam has upgraded its relations with seven countries to strategic partnerships or comprehensive strategic partnerships, and with seven others to comprehensive partnerships, raising the number of countries with which it has strategic or comprehensive partnerships to 33, including all the most powerful countries.

Vietnam has also officially joined UN peacekeeping operations, deeply engaged in numerous new-generation and high-standard free trade agreements and trade connections such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the EU - Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), contributing to creating favorable foreign relations for national development.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son announced the Prime Minister's Decision, on the establishment of a Steering Committee for the project’s development. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Integration into the world contains both opportunities and challenges, and this is a difficult but compulsory task. Besides the achievements, the implementation of Resolution No.22-NQ/TW has also had many shortcomings. The PM asked the committee to focus on assessing the results, shortcomings, limitations, and lessons learned from the implementation of the resolution, as well as fulfilling their duties to propose the Politburo issue a document on directions for international integration in the coming time.

At the session, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son announced the Prime Minister's Decision on the establishment of a Steering Committee for the project’s development.

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