(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has stressed that international integration in the new period should closely follow and serve the national policy of building an independent, self-reliant economy in connection with active, practical and effective international integration.
 PM Pham Minh Chinh addresses the first meeting of the steering committee for the plan on reviewing the 10-year implementation of the Politburo’s Resolution 22-NQ/TW on August 2. (Photo: VNA) |
The PM, who is also head of the steering committee for the plan on reviewing the 10-year implementation of the Politburo’s Resolution 22 on international integration, made the remarks while chairing the committee’s first meeting on Wednesday.
He said international integration should create an impetus to maintain a peaceful environment for rapid, sustainable national development.
He noted that the resolution, issued by the 11th-tenure Politburo on April 10, 2013, marked an important shift in the Party and State’s mindset about Vietnam’s integration into the world.
"Realizing this Resolution, we moved from international economic integration to proactive, active, comprehensive, intensive, and effective integration into the world in all aspects, including politics, defense, security, culture, society, science - technology, and education - training. Over the past 10 years, we have gained significant achievements. Our country’s international status has risen which has enabled us to mobilize more resources. Vietnam has signed 16 free trade agreements and is now negotiating other agreements. During the last ten years, Vietnam has upgraded its relations with seven countries to strategic partnerships or comprehensive strategic partnerships, and with seven others to the comprehensive partnerships, raising the number of countries with which it has strategic or comprehensive partnerships to 33, including all superpowers in the world."
 The first meeting of the steering committee for the plan on reviewing the 10-year implementation of the Politburo’s Resolution 22-NQ/TW on August 2. (Photo: VNA) |
In the coming time, the Prime Minister said, it’s important to strengthen international integration in the new period to serve the national policy of building an independent, self-reliant economy in connection with proactive, active, extensive, practical and effective international integration, making international integration a driver for national development.
The Prime Minister said after ten years engaging in both bilateral and multilateral integration, Vietnam now needs to create new changes, take advantage of the 4th industrial revolution, the shift of restructure supply chains, and the network of FTAs that Vietnam has signed as well as the strategic partnership and comprehensive partnership to mobilize resources for national development and improve its international position.