Presidents of Vietnam

"Mr. President and I also had direct and open exchange of views on a matter that we may differ, especially on matters related to religion and human rights. And our approach is that we would increase our dialogue in order to have a better understanding of each other. And we are also determined not to let those differences afflict our overall, larger interest."

"We must focus on building a contingent of cadres, especially those at strategic level, who have sufficient qualification, capability, prestige on a par with their mission, and uphold the responsibility of setting example of cadres and Party members."

"At different Party Congresses, we issued resolutions on the task of Party building and rectification, considering it a key long-term task. Each Resolution has its own focus, but there is always one constant point that all sectors of different levels, cadres, Party members and the entire people all are aware of the necessity to regularly and continuously take care of implementing the task of Party building and rectification."

"A new spring is coming, bringing along with it a new vitality and confidence. To take full advantage of opportunities and overcome challenges, our entire Party, army and people should strengthen solidarity, join their forces and unanimity, and uphold their spirit of patriotism, skills, virtues and long-standing traditions of Vietnam, continuing to try their best to put the Party’s Resolution into life and determine to make our Party stronger and more transparent, making our country to further develop, and our people’s lives more prosperous, well-fed and happier."

"The struggles against phenomena of degradation in political thoughts, morals and lifestyle are not yet carried out with due vigor. It is exhibited by the insincere and superficial process of self-criticism and criticism in a number of places from time to time. It also includes the unwillingness to admit but blame the mistakes on external circumstances, and hesitation in confronting wrongdoings. Inspections and supervision are executed irregularly and irresolutely with limited scope. Early warning and prevention of violations remain inefficient."

"The international and domestic landscapes are changing rapidly, in complicated and unpredictable ways, with opportunities intertwining with challenges and adversities. This poses new, more complex and more urgent questions to our cause of nation-building, renewal and development. The revolutionary cause of our Party and people is still faced with a multitude of hardships and challenges. The four threats warned by our Party still remain relevant, perhaps even more severe in certain aspects. Hostile elements are relentlessly working to subvert the revolutionary cause of our Party and people through denying the leadership of the Party and dividing the Party from the people, with the aim of overthrowing our Party and polity."

"The many-thousand-year-long history of our nation has proved that the love for the country, the preservation of the country, the resolute fight against foreign invasion, and the defense of national independence, sovereignty and unification constitute an extremely precious tradition of our people. Building on this tradition, since the mid-19th century when our country was invaded by the French colonialists, never subjugated to slavery, our people had kept rising up in continual and forceful patriotic movements characterized by multiple paths and tendencies, ranging from national salvation paths chosen by scholars to rebellions by peasants and bourgeois-styled revolutionary paths, etc. However, despite their staunchness, wholeheartedness and immense sufferings, all those movements ended in failure due to historical limitations, most notably the lack of a judicious line. A new path was dictated by history."

"Globalization and global integration are on the right track, but they are met with the rise of extreme nationalism, strategic competition and trade wars."

"The 21st century is the century of oceans, as the seas and oceans are the habitat and development space for coastal countries in general and the planet as a whole. The development of maritime economy and the protection of the marine environment play a very important role in the sustainable development of coastal countries, including Vietnam."

"For the peace of the world, for a connected and developed world, let’s shake hands. We shall develop together and contribute to global stability."

"We don’t forget our past, our history, but we need (closure) in order to look to the future. We need such mutual understanding to build our nations in peace, to better solve the problems in the lives of our citizens."

"Millions of Vietnamese died throughout years of resistance wars to protect the country, our independence and freedom. More than ever, we value peace, based on mutual respect for each others’ independence and sovereignty."

"Vietnam is one of the most open and dynamic economy in the region. In the spirit of integrity, development-enabling, action and service to the people and businesses, the Vietnamese government has put in place many policies to improve the business environment and assist businesses."

"Vietnam has a young population that is digitally savvy. Around 60 percent of our population of 93 million are under 35, and approximately 54 percent are internet users. This is a favorable foundation and a sufficiently large market to cultivate the digital economy and accelerate investment into new business models in Vietnam."

"We also seek to create a ripple effect in the use of information and digital technology, and step up economic restructuring and growth model transformation in close coordination with digital transformation."

"The COVID-19 pandemic is still evolving with complexities while the endurance of the people and businesses has its limit. Poverty is resurgent, unemployment is on the rise, and social inequality is worsening. Racing against time, we must take bolder actions, and engage in more substantive and effective cooperation."

"The strong advances of science and technology and the digital transformation taking place around the globe present both opportunities and challenges to countries, especially the developing ones. Social conflicts stemming from social disparities, discrimination and stigma have deteriorated due to the pandemic, further widening the divide within countries."

"I promise to make every effort to well fulfill the tasks assigned by the Party, State and people."

"Along with globalization and regionalization, the trends of linkage and integration, and the impacts of the revolution in science and technology, our region in recent years has yielded a cornucopia of long-term ideas, initiatives, and strategies for cooperation that are both inter-regional and global in scope."

"President Obama and I also discussed the future direction of bilateral ties and measures to further deepen bilateral cooperation. We underscored the importance of confidence-building and priority for development cooperation in trade and investment, science and technology, human resource development, and addressing climate change."

"Our country is thousands of kilometers long with many areas needing investments. We expect many investors, not only large investors, but also small investors with high technology, to expand investments in those areas."

"Reinforcing Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation is in line with long-term and principal benefits of the two countries and two peoples, and beneficial to maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world."

"Preventing and fighting corruption and waste is an important, urgent and long-term task of extreme difficulty and complexity. To enhance the efficiency of the work, timely detection, investigation and handling of offences plays a decisive role."

"Vietnam is a developing country, the Communist Party of Vietnam and the State of Vietnam have been providing their concerns and supports to the development of the cooperative economic sector and cooperatives. At present, Vietnam has got over 150,000 pre-cooperatives, 20,000 cooperatives and 50 cooperative federations with nearly 30 million people participating in almost careers of the economy such as agriculture, small industry and handicraft, construction, transportation, trade, bank credit, health, environment …. The cooperative economy and cooperatives have significantly contributed to the cause of the poverty alleviation, building new rural areas (new villages) and protecting the sustainable environment in Vietnam."

"The increased protectism causes the deep anxiousness. The achievements of the globalization process is not allocated equally among countries in the region, cooperatives and population community. The scientific and technological advances can increase the development distance between economies and cooperatives as well as the rich and poor gap between people classes in the region."

"Women worldwide should unite for peace, friendly co-operation and development."

"Since the Revolutionary Autumn of 1945, in the spirit of “Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom,” the Vietnamese nation fought valiantly through countless arduous wars, with millions of this land’s outstanding individuals having laid down their lives for national liberation and unification, and for the building and protection of their Fatherland."

"An invaluable asset and significant source of strength for Viet Nam to overcome all challenges and losses have long stemmed from the people’s patriotism, great national unity, unwavering resolve and bravery, relentless pursuit of self-reliance and resilience, and burning aspiration for independence, freedom, peace, and happiness. Such noble values are tempered, preserved, and harnessed over the nation’s national construction and protection efforts spanning thousands of years."

"Throughout this process, the people have always been placed at the heart of Viet Nam’s endeavors. They are the actor, the driver, and the consistent goal of all development policies. Viet Nam always strives to mobilize the strength of the entire nation, and perseveringly pursues the philosophy of national independence aligned with socialism that the Party, President Ho Chi Minh, and the Vietnamese people have chosen."

"Art is a magical language that can bring people closer together, connecting kindred souls via emotions of the heart. The melodies of today’s artistic performances will bring forth a sense of joy stemming from cultural and traditional values of the peace-loving and compassionate Vietnamese nation. Such values have transcended time and space, and entwined with the quintessence of the culture of mankind, thereby bringing Viet Nam to the world, and bringing the world closer to Viet Nam."

"The history of human development is a continuous process of discovery, innovation, adaptation, and tireless striving for peace, progress and prosperity. At each critical moment, the world needs strong, bold decisions to overcome difficulties and open new directions."

"Firstly, we must ensure the mutual relationship between economic growth, social justice and environmental protection. The measure of an economy's success is not only the size and GDP growth rate but must also take into account the welfare people enjoy and the impact on the environment in both the short and long term. Economic growth based on consumption and resource exploitation needs to be replaced with a more sustainable, circular economic model. On a national scale, economic development policies not only aim to facilitate business investment for businesses, but also improve job quality, increase income for workers, and contribute to conservation. ecological environment. At the regional and global level, cooperation between countries is not only aimed at cutting emissions and converting to clean energy, but also needs to create conditions for developing countries to expand the scale of their economies and shrink them. development gap. And finally, at each business, the new business philosophy is to link the business's profits with the common interests of society."

"Maintaining sustainable economic growth coupled with implementing progress, social justice and protecting the ecological environment, ensuring that all people can develop their potential, participate and enjoy equal success. The results of development are a requirement throughout Vietnam's development process. Economic growth coupled with the realization of progress and social justice must be carried out in every step, every policy and throughout the development process; Do not "sacrifice" progress, social justice, and the environment to pursue simple economic growth."

"Vietnam always cares and accompanies the business community both domestically and internationally; Respect and protect the legitimate and legal rights and interests of investors; as well as ensuring harmony of interests between the State, investors and workers. We see the success of businesses as our own success, and the failure of businesses is also the failure of the State in policy management. We welcome and create maximum conditions for you to invest in the above areas."

"The world seems to be under the strong influence of three major dynamics. Firstly, instability and uncertainty are increasing, opportunities are mixed with challenges, requiring countries to enhance adaptability and promote international cooperation. Second, the world is transitioning to a multi-polar, multi-center situation and is influenced by the strong development of science and technology. Third, Asia-Pacific and the Indian Ocean are the most dynamic developing regions, leading in innovation, creativity, economic integration and witnessing the rise of new powers, but also areas of strategic competition, sovereignty and territorial disputes, potentially leading to tension and confrontation if not well controlled."

"The world's major trends are still peace, cooperation, and development, but there are more obstacles and difficulties, more rapid developments, more complicated, and more difficult to predict; Competition between major countries is increasingly fierce; outbreak of conflicts and wars in regions; increasing arms race, especially the risk of nuclear arms race and nuclear war."

"In the process of innovation, the people are always placed at the center, the source of strength, both the subject and the target of development."

"To realize Vietnam's aspiration to become a developed, high-income country by the middle of this century, we focus on rapid and sustainable development, based on the application of science - technology and innovation, simultaneously with cultural and social development and environmental protection; Build and perfect the rule of law state of the people, by the people, for the people, strong, streamlined, effective and efficient; Actively integrate comprehensively and deeply internationally. In that process, people with all their human and civil rights are at the center of future policies and planning. We are also deeply aware that there are still many difficulties and limitations that need to be overcome and made more efforts."

"Building and developing the country along with protecting the country is a universal task of all countries. For thousands of years, Vietnam's history has been the history of building and defending the country. My country had to go through long years of war to defend the Fatherland. Whenever there is a foreign invasion of the country, the entire nation, millions of people as one, unites and fights tenaciously, wipes out the enemies from the land, preserves the integrity of the mountains and rivers, and wins the right to life, freedom and rights. Pursue happiness for the nation. The strength for our nation to overcome all difficulties is the spirit of great righteousness and kindness of a nation that always loves peace and is filial, friendly, and respectful of other nations."

"From the traditions and philosophies of our nation, selectively absorbing the world's elite, Vietnam determines and consistently implements the foreign policy: Independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and develop, diversify and multilateralize foreign relations; proactively and actively integrate comprehensively and deeply; a friend, a trusted partner and an active, responsible member of the international community."

"It can be affirmed that the relationship between Vietnam and the US has never developed as well as it does today; from former enemies to comprehensive strategic partners. This is truly a model in the history of international relations in terms of healing and building post-war relations. This result is due to the joint efforts to overcome challenges, historical ups and downs of many generations of leaders and people of the two countries."

"Vietnam always wants peace, cooperation and development in a world where countries build visions together, cooperate together, share responsibilities, for the benefit of the people and the community. international."

"Since I was young, I had the opportunity to visit the country in an exchange program to meet Vietnamese and Japanese youth. Those visits, meeting Japanese young people, and living with Japanese families left me with good memories and impressions of the hospitable and friendly Japanese people; The country of Japan is as beautiful as cherry blossoms, the Japanese soul is peaceful and profound like Haiku poems, the Japanese spirit is resilient and noble like Samurai warriors, the Japanese will is steadfast and steadfast."

"Vietnam and Japan have the same wet rice civilization and have had to overcome harsh challenges of nature and devastating war. From there, we have trained people with the qualities of resilience, indomitableness, diligence, dynamism, creativity, appreciating the values ​​of community and family harmony, loyalty, gratitude, and respect. ancestors, being filial to parents, always aiming for the values ​​of truth - goodness - beauty to perfect personality."

"Our country had to go through long years of war to defend the Fatherland to preserve the integrity of the country, to gain the right to life, the right to freedom and the right to pursue happiness. The strength for the Vietnamese people to overcome all difficulties to build and defend the country is the spirit of great righteousness and kindness of a nation that always loves peace, filial piety, friendship and respect for other nations. ."

"In a world of many changes, from the traditions and philosophies of our nation, from international experience, Vietnam determines and consistently implements its foreign policy: Independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship. consultation, cooperation and development, diversification and multilateralization of foreign relations; proactively and actively integrate comprehensively and deeply; a friend, a trusted partner and an active, responsible member of the international community. During that process, we determined that relations with neighboring countries are a top priority, relations with major countries and comprehensive strategic partners have strategic significance, relations with strategic partners are of strategic significance. strategic partners, comprehensive partners, a number of other partners that are very important and value relationships with traditional partners."

"The history of human development has witnessed great progress. Human intelligence has transformed the world, making human life better, more developed and more perfect in all aspects. However, it is also humans who are also the cause of difficulties and challenges that the humanity is facing. Specifically, it is the cause of climate change, epidemics, resource depletion or the creation of weapons of mass destruction, etc. Right now, the choices we make will shape our future."

"Scientific and technological achievements must serve social progress, focus on humanity, liberate and develop humanity in a comprehensive manner, constantly improve life, for the benefits and happiness of humanity and for future generations."

"Scientific and technological achievements should be to promote cooperation, instead of being tools against nations, going against the aspirations for peace, development, equality and justice of nations."

"We will relentlessly strive to ensure that the people fully enjoy development achievements and future generations are well prepared for their paths ahead."

"Culture is a special product of the people and the nation. Preserving and promoting the strength of culture is an area that any country must pay attention to because this task is closely linked to social development, enriching the spiritual life of the people and the effective operation of the state."

"In the process of building and developing the country, spreading throughout the lifeblood of the Fatherland like blood cells, the team of artists continues to sacrifice and endure hardships to reflect and affirm the colorful vitality in all regions and professions, creating works imbued with cultural and humanistic values, adding vitality to aesthetics and art, creating spiritual resources for the country on the path to prosperity and beauty, especially the beauty of the Vietnamese soul."

"Besides the achievements, frankly admit that compared to the period of resistance war and national construction, literary and artistic activities in the period of national renovation are somewhat stagnant, lacking enthusiasm; lacking works with high artistic generalization, with the ability to appeal, move, encourage, and motivate the entire people and army to join hands, unite, and be determined to implement the strategic policies of the Party and State. The literary and artistic foundation has not yet vividly and fully reflected the reality of the renovation and international integration, traditional cultural values ​​have been lost; confused, passive, not proactively absorbing the quintessence of human culture, not promptly preventing the "poisonous wind" of foreign culture from invading national culture."

"Many products follow the trend of petty and temporary entertainment; some incite low instincts; some eagerly embrace foreign artistic views that are unselective, far from the function of truth, goodness, and beauty; has not fulfilled its noble mission as a torch of humanity, a torch of wisdom and culture to illuminate, guide and create healthy and progressive values ​​and lifestyles. Some artists are still passive, lacking in aspiration, not committed, even degenerate in political ideology, have distorted thinking, follow trivial tastes, follow immediate personal interests, fall into depravity, violate the law. The artistic environment sometimes and in some places has not really created a source of inspiration, contributing to arousing the aspirations and passion of artists. In the creation, performance and dissemination of literary and artistic works, there are still many works and activities that have not demonstrated progress and national identity."

"From a land without a name on the world map, from a war-torn country, Viet Nam has risen to become a symbol of peace, stability, hospitality, and a destination for international investors and tourists."

"In the context of global landscape with both opportunities and challenges, Viet Nam, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Viet Nam will certainly enter the a new era, an era of rising up, constantly striving, making greater contributions to maintaining peace, stability and development in the region and the world by promoting the spirit of self-reliance, self-confidence, and national pride, taking the great national solidarity and pure international solidarity as the driving force, strongly mobilizing the people's strength, closely linking the Party's will with the people's hearts as the foundation."

"We firmly believe that, together, we will overcome all challenges, seize opportunities to join hands to build a world of peace and sustainable development, and shape a fair international political and and economic order based on the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and international law."

"After nearly 80 years of national founding and nearly 40 years of Renovation, under the comprehensive leadership of the Communist Party, Vietnam is standing at a new historical starting point, a new era - the era of the Vietnamese people's rise. The great and historically significant achievements of the Renovation process are the premise for the Vietnamese people to believe in the future ahead."

"The great achievements we have made originate from the right path that Vietnam has chosen under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, with the efforts and determination of the entire nation. Overcoming many difficulties and challenges, from a country of slavery, devastated by war, Vietnam has regained independence and today has affirmed its position as a dynamically developing economy."

"We are living in a rapidly changing world. But for Vietnam, one thing remains unchanged: Under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, we continue to consistently implement a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization, diversification, being a friend, a reliable partner, and an active, responsible member of the international community."

"In the coming time, the world and regional situation will continue to have many complex and unpredictable changes, opportunities and challenges will continue to intertwine. The good news is that peace, cooperation and development are still the major trend, the common aspiration of all peoples."

"Looking back at the journey that the Vietnamese people have gone through, more than ever, we are confident, steadfast and moving forward. In the new era, the era of the Vietnamese people's rise under the leadership of the Communist Party, we will do our best to realize that aspiration of the nation. On the journey towards the future, Vietnam will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with international friends and partners, sharing the same vision, coordinating actions, for the best goals for all of humanity."