Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: Vietnam chooses justice, not sides

Sincerity and trust are the keys to solving the world’s challenges

On the afternoon of May 11 (local time), in Washington DC, the US, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and delivered an important speech at CSIS, ahead of the ASEAN-US Special Summit. The world is facing the most difficult time since the Cold War, when the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical, geo-economic shifts and strategic competition among major countries are creating making turning point changes with many factors that are difficult to predict, having multi-dimensional impacts on the security and development environment of countries.

According to the Prime Minister, sincerity, trust and responsibility are especially important to solve the problems facing the world today. The lack of sincerity, trust and responsibility is one of the causes of tension and conflict in many areas. Lack of sincerity and trust is a serious obstacle to bilateral cooperation between countries as well as cooperation to deal with regional and global challenges.

“Each country needs to behave responsibly, first of all by complying with its own commitments, by international law, by the United Nations Charter, by respecting independence, sovereignty and the whole world.” each other’s territorial integrity, respecting the political institutions that each country has chosen,” emphasized the Prime Minister, while taking ASEAN as an example to demonstrate the value of sincerity, trust and responsibility in contributing to each other’s territories. solving regional and global problems.

Vietnam chooses justice, not sides

The Prime Minister affirmed that as an active and responsible member in ASEAN and the international community, Vietnam always strives to contribute to dialogue and cooperation, ready to play a proactive, active and appropriate role. suit their potential and position. In a world full of turbulence, strategic competition and many choices, Vietnam does not choose a side but chooses justice, fairness, justice and righteousness on the basis of principles of international law, the Constitution of Vietnam and the United Nations. United Nations chapter; equality, all benefit, all win.

“Between independence and dependence, we always choose independence with the spirit of “Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom” of the great President Ho Chi Minh; between negotiation and confrontation, we choose negotiation; between dialogue and conflict, we choose dialogue; between peace and war, we choose peace; between cooperation and competition, we choose cooperation and competition, we must be healthy, equal, respectful respect each other’s legitimate rights and interests,” emphasized the Prime Minister.

Therefore, in settling disputes and conflicts in the region and in the world, including the East Sea – an important sea for countries inside and outside the region, Vietnam always advocates maintaining peace and harmony. peace, stability, ensuring security, safety and freedom of navigation and aviation; protect legitimate rights and interests, settle disagreements by peaceful means, through dialogue, on the basis of respect for international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982); effectively and fully implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), striving to develop a substantive and effective Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) in accordance with international law. , including UNCLOS 1982 – emphasized the Prime Minister.

Vietnam always wants to strengthen cooperation with the US

The Prime Minister emphasized that Vietnam always wishes to strengthen cooperation with the US on a sincere basis, continue to strengthen trust, strengthen the responsibility of both sides, for the common interests of the two peoples. for peace, cooperation and development of the region and the world.

To fulfill the national development goals, Vietnam cannot go it alone. If you want to go far, you must have friends… Vietnam and the US have come a long way in showing sincerity and building trust with each other. With the US and many countries looking to the Indo-Pacific region, while Vietnam is accelerating the realization of aspirational development goals, the two countries are facing new opportunities to bring their relationship to life. Comprehensive partnership system develops stably, long-term, substantively, effectively, in depth, especially in economy, trade, investment, science and technology, digital transformation, human resource training high quality, fighting climate change, fighting epidemics, exchanging people… and in solving international and regional issues.

“Sincerity, trust and responsibility have also made important contributions to the strong development of Vietnam-US relations over the past 30 years. I believe that these will also be key factors. directing, promoting and bringing the comprehensive partnership between Vietnam and the US to a new height, in fact, more effectively in the coming time,” the Prime Minister concluded.