Prime Minister Le Minh Hung, Chairman of the Central Council for Emulation and Commendation, chaired the council’s second meeting for the 2026–2031 term at the Government headquarters in Hanoi on the afternoon of July 6.

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam received in Hanoi on July 6 the newly accredited ambassadors of Portugal, Iran, Mongolia, the US and Myanmar, as they presented their credentials, officially beginning their diplomatic missions in Vietnam.

The Lao People's Army Newspaper has published an article affirming that the great friendship, special solidarity, comprehensive cooperation, and strategic cohesion between Laos and Vietnam are invaluable assets founded by Presidents Ho Chi Minh, Kaysone Phomvihane, and Souphanouvong.

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam on July 4 urged the Government and local authorities to immediately remove obstacles to policy implementation, describing execution as the "bottleneck of all bottlenecks" at present, to accelerate economic growth and lay a solid foundation for the country's next development phase.

The Quang Tri provincial People's Committee and the US Embassy in Vietnam on July 3 held the closing ceremony for the Pacific Partnership – Pacific Friendship 2026 (PP-PF26) programme, wrapping up a series of large-scale humanitarian, healthcare and disaster response preparedness activities between Vietnam and the US.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung received in Hanoi on July 2 Maeda Tadashi, Governor of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), who pledged that the bank will continue to support Vietnam's strategic development goals.

The Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee convened a conference in Hanoi on July 1 to review the one-year implementation of the overall organisational model of the political system and the three-tier administration model.

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam chaired the first meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Foreign Affairs and International Integration in Hanoi on June 30, stressing that foreign affairs and international integration must serve more directly national development, strategic autonomy and greater national competitiveness.

Vietnam always considers the Republic of Korea (RoK) one of its most important strategic partners across trade, investment, tourism, culture, national defence-security, and sci-tech, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man told Director of the Kimhakmin E-roun Institute for Economic Research Prof. Kim Hak-min during a reception in Hanoi on June 29.

Vietnam wants to deepen its Comprehensive Partnership with Canada in a more substantive and effective manner, and elevate ties to a new level, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung told Canadian Ambassador Jim Nickel during a reception in Hanoi on June 29, calling the North American nation an important partner.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man on June 25 witnessed the signing ceremony of coordination regulations between the NA’s Committee for National Defence, Security and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam on June 25 called for a comprehensive review, cleansing, standardisation and integration of data across the entire political system, stressing that data must be considered as an important foundation and a strategic national resource.

Politburo member and Permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Tran Cam Tu has signed a conclusion approving in principle a plan to establish Bac Ninh as a centrally-run city within its existing administrative borders.

Competent authorities have approved in principle the convening of an extraordinary session of the National Assembly (NA) in August, NA Chairman Tran Thanh Man announced on June 23.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung has called for concentrating resources on developing core technologies and strategic products with the potential to drive growth and improve national competitiveness.

Strategic-level personnel planning is a matter of paramount importance that is directly linked to the destiny of the Party, the future of the nation, and public trust, Party General Secretary and State President To Lam said on June 23.

The Presidential Office held a press conference on June 23 to announce the Presidential Order promulgating two ordinances adopted by the 16th National Assembly Standing Committee at its third session, namely the Ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on consolidation of legal normative documents, and the Ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on Procedures for the consideration and decision of administrative handling measures by People's Courts.

Measurable progress must be achieved by the end of 2026 in reducing administrative procedures, removing institutional bottlenecks and improving legal frameworks across key sectors, Party General Secretary and State President To Lam stressed while chairing the first meeting of the central steering committee for institutional perfection and law enforcement in Hanoi on June 22.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam welcomed Acting US Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao, who is in Vietnam for the Pacific Partnership - Pacific Friendship 2026 (PP-PF26) mission, during a reception in Hanoi on June 22.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ngo Le Van, who is also Chairman of the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO, led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 11th Session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and promote the country’s heritage nomination dossiers and cooperation activities with UNESCO in Paris, France, from June 16 - 19.