(CPV) - Party Secretary-General and President Nguyen Phu Trong has signed a decision to bestow the Friendship Order to the Indonesian Ambassador to Vietnam Ibnu Hadi to acknowledge his valuable efforts in promoting bilateral relations.

There will be temporarily no commercial flights to bring home overseas Vietnamese who voluntarily pay for quarantine fees, foreign ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said on December 3.

Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong on December 3 hosted a reception in Hanoi for outgoing Russian Ambassador Konstantin Vnukov, who came to say good-bye at the end of his term.

Vietnam demands that China respect Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said at the Foreign Ministry’s regular press conference on December 3.

(CPV) - The Vietnamese Government, the European Union (EU) and the French Development Agency (AFD) have signed agreements on a new joint project entitled “Climate-resilient urban infrastructure in north-central Vietnam” (CRUIV), aiming at decreasing the vulnerability of five urban areas to climate hazards.

In realization of the Prime Minister’s decision, the General Department of State Reserves at the Ministry of Finance on December 2 took 1,000 tons of rice from the national reserve as urgent assistance to Laos’ Savanakhet province that is affected by natural disaster.

A grand ceremony was held in Hanoi on December 2 to mark Laos’ 45th National Day (December 2) and the 100th birthday of late President Kaysone Phomvihane (December 13).

Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong on December 2 sent greetings to First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Raul Castro Ruz and President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties.

The Vietnamese Party, State and people always treasure and want to further deepen the special friendship and comprehensive cooperation with their Cuban counterparts, a top leader has said.