(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, leading a high-level delegation of Vietnam, participated in the 19th East Asia Summit (EAS) and 14th ASEAN-United Nations Summit in Vientiane on Friday, the final day of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and related events.
 Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends the 19th East Asia Summit (EAS) in Vientiane, Laos on October 12, 2024. (VGP/Nhat Bac) |
Prime Minister Chinh highlighted the need for ASEAN and EAS partners to enhance dialogue and collaboration, build strategic trust, enhance commonalities, minimise disagreements, respect differences, look toward the future, act constructively and responsibly, and work together to address shared challenges.
He also stressed the importance of their concerted effort to create an open, inclusive, transparent ASEAN-centred structure that upholds international law for the sake of the people with no one left behind. He called on partners to support ASEAN's centrality with practical actions.
Acknowledging the EAS’s potential and strengths, PM Chinh encouraged the summit to pioneer in promoting new growth engines, prioritise cooperation in sci-tech development, innovation, digital transformation, green transition, and circular economy, among others.
At the 14th ASEAN-UN Summit, PM Chinh called for strengthened coordination between the two sides to address global challenges, contributing positively to green and sustainable development.
ASEAN and the UN should continue to cooperate effectively and positively contribute to collective efforts to ensure peace, security, and stability in the world and the Southeast Asian region, he noted.
The Government leader asked that the UN contribute more to maintaining peace, stability, security, and freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea, support ASEAN's common stance on this area, peacefully resolve disputes, and make efforts to promptly achieve a substantive and effective COC that aligns with international law, particularly the 1982 UNCLOS, serving the turning of the East Sea into a region of peace, stability, cooperation, and sustainable development.
The same day, PM Chinh and other ASEAN leaders attended the closing ceremony of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and related meetings, which was marked by the handover of the ASEAN Chairmanship from Laos to Malaysia.