The position of the country and the vision of the leader
Speaking to Dan Viet, Ambassador Pham Quang Vinh, former Deputy Foreign Minister and former Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States, said that the invitation of the Secretary-General and the President to attend this forum and deliver the opening speech was of profound importance, clearly demonstrated by two key aspects.
First, given the current situation, the world is experiencing critically important changes in the international order, development models and security challenges, both traditional and non-traditional.
Crises follow one another in rapid succession, are no longer limited to a single geographic region but have a global impact, as illustrated by the crises in the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz.
In this context, the importance of this forum is further reinforced because, since 2002, it has become the main defense and security forum in the Asia-Pacific region, capable of connecting the countries of the region and the main powers.
This year, the forum attracted 44 participating countries, most of which are important partners in the region.
In this context, the international community has great hopes for the vision and position of Vietnam, a country with extensive external relations, with a network of 15 strategic partners and nearly 40 strategic and comprehensive partnership agreements. Vietnam not only asserts its solid role within ASEAN and regional institutions, but also maintains close ties with the international scene.
Public opinion is also particularly interested in how Vietnam has managed and overcome recent challenges in order to preserve a peaceful and stable environment conducive to development.
Vietnam’s ability to leverage its endogenous strengths to maintain its position is clearly demonstrated by three aspects: skillful management of relationships and fierce competition among major powers, the ability to adapt to global headwinds and challenges, including supply chain disruptions, pandemics and climate change.
They are also closely interested in the consistency of Vietnamese foreign policy on security issues and regional cooperation mechanisms. In reality, Vietnam’s current position testifies to its ability to overcome crises, and not to empty declarations.
The organizers also place their trust in the leader of the Vietnamese Party and State, a trust that is clearly manifested in two essential points. First, a vision to lead the country into a new era through a series of key resolutions aimed at making Vietnam a prosperous and powerful nation. The innovative and fundamental aspect of this new approach to development is based on innovation and creativity, while fully exploiting the potential of resources.
Second, concrete results have been achieved in terms of foreign relations: over the last two years, the general secretary and the president have made almost 30 trips abroad and welcomed a series of high-ranking world leaders to Vietnam.
Through these concrete diplomatic activities, the most important message of Vietnamese foreign policy to the world is its unwavering commitment to an independent, autonomous, diversified and multilateral foreign policy, making Vietnam a friend, a reliable partner and a responsible member of the community. international.
At the same time, Vietnam promotes mutually beneficial cooperation based on international law, actively collaborating with other countries to create an environment of peace, stability, cooperation and development by upholding multilateralism, dialogue and extensive cooperation.
A radical shift from “passive response” to “proactive creation” is needed.
The central theme of the Secretary-General and President’s speech was the proactive construction of peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region. Ambassador Pham Quang Vinh said that based on this central theme, the speech highlighted four important strategic points.
The absolute priority is strategic thinking on sustainable global security. This concept encompasses the security environment of all sectors, closely integrating traditional and non-traditional security measures.
Strategic thinking in security is updated to address contemporary issues, notably the development of science and technology, including emerging areas such as data governance, artificial intelligence, new technologies and defense technologies; as well as gaps in global governance regarding these new technologies that need to be addressed, while warning against manipulation, misinformation and supply chain disruptions that erode trust in society.
The second strategic component concerns three global crises and three uncertain risks. The world is going through a period of transition and is facing three major crises. The first is the crisis of the rules-based international order, marked by a tendency to use force and pressure in international relations, leading to a situation where the more powerful dominate the weaker.
Then came the crisis of development models: while globalization created interdependent supply chains, the wave of strategic competition caused disruption and fragmentation, forcing countries to change their development models in response to the urgent demands of digital transformation and transformation. green.
Finally, there is the crisis of strategic trust, where a lack of mutual understanding and insufficient governance mechanisms when trust erodes can easily lead nations into a spiral of suspicion and confrontation.
Added to this are three paradoxes of global trends: increasingly interconnected spaces, but a risk of geopolitical fragmentation; technological development which opens up great opportunities for governance and development, but which also harbors unpredictable risks in the absence of good governance; and globalization which makes countries interdependent, but this relationship of interdependence is used to create political pressure.
In the third strategic component, the Secretary General and the President defined six major directions of action to maintain peace, stability and cooperative development: defend the rule of law and dialogue in order to protect the international order rules-based and conflict-preventing; build a resilient regional structure capable of managing security, economic challenges and potential risks, emphasizing ASEAN’s liaison role with other countries; place human security and social resilience at the heart of priorities; supervise new technologies and create responsible standards to control these efficient tools; strengthen resilience and social consensus in order to improve society’s capacity to respond to risks linked to disinformation and the manipulation of information; promote preventive diplomacy, affirming that diplomacy is always an essential channel for managing and preventing risks, and resolving crises quickly and remotely in order to minimize the damage.
The final strategic message is crucial: it concerns the change of strategic state. This central message, which runs throughout the speech of the Secretary-General and President, is that the world and the region must imperatively move from a passive and reactive attitude to an active and proactive attitude in order to prevent and mitigate risks.
In this global context, the Asia-Pacific region is an area of dynamic development, a place where the great powers intervene and where both favorable and unfavorable factors converge. Therefore, this region must anticipate and develop solutions to this multifaceted crisis and demonstrate its capacity to manage these risks.
The common denominator of times
According to Ambassador Pham Quang Vinh, Secretary General and President To Lam’s speech focused on Vietnam’s foreign policy and security concept, which revolves around two essential points. First, the nature of a rules-based international order, which is not an instrument serving a single nation, but rather a framework for creating rules and mechanisms to ensure the peaceful coexistence of countries large and small, respecting their independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and with a view to mutually beneficial cooperation.
The second essential point lies in the contemporary observation that peace, stability, cooperation and development are the common denominators of all nations. Vietnam advocates close harmonization of its national interests and its development with the common objectives of the region, because contributing to regional development is also contributing to Vietnam’s interests.
Vietnam calls on all countries to use this common denominator as a foundation, both to serve their own interests and to interact with each other to contribute to the common good, because in an interdependent world, no nation benefits from disrupting the environment of peace and stability.
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