Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested reviewing and adjusting provisions of the FTA to better reflect the evolving global context, based on a comprehensive assessment of its implementation to date, ensuring substantive and balanced benefits for all parties.
The committee will provide opinions on a slate of draft laws, including the Law on amendments and supplements to several articles of the Law on Notarisation, the Law on amendments and supplements to several articles of the Law on Legal Assistance, the revised Law on Access to Information, the Law on amendments and supplements to several articles of the Law on Overseas Representative Missions of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
PM Chinh affirmed the determination to honour, inherit and further promote the great values and legacy left by PM Pham Van Dong for today and future generations, in service of building a strong, prosperous, civilised and happy Vietnam that steadily advances toward socialism.
The Vietnam People’s Navy must act as the core force and a reliable source of support for fishermen to maintain their presence at sea while enhancing maritime cooperation and defence diplomacy with foreign militaries and navies, helping to firmly safeguard national sovereignty, sovereign rights, jurisdiction, and interests.
PM Chinh highlighted the historical bonds between the two peoples dating back more than 500 years and described Portugal’s decision to open an embassy in Vietnam as a landmark step, reflecting its determination to strengthen the bilateral ties and create a favourable foundation for cooperation across fields.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed that laws should stipulate only fundamental and principled issues, with detailed regulations delegated to drafting agencies for inclusion in guiding decrees. Policy articulation must ensure clarity, accessibility, ease of enforcement, and effective oversight.
The Command of Coast Guard Region 3 announced on February 27 that polling team no. 10 in Phuoc Thang ward, Ho Chi Minh City, successfully organised early voting for officers and personnel on duty aboard Coast Guard vessel CSB 6008 at Thang Long–Dong Do oil field.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on February 27 received visiting Portuguese Minister of State and Foreign Affairs Paulo Rangel, during which he affirmed that Vietnam attaches great importance to and wants to further deepen friendship and multifaceted cooperation with Portugal.
Minister of Home Affairs Do Thanh Binh said the Government and the Prime Minister have directed the synchronous and timely implementation of assigned tasks, while issuing a full legal framework to ensure uniform election organisation nationwide.
Highlighting Hai Phong’s role as one of Vietnam’s six centrally-run cities, the leader said the upcoming election of deputies to the 16th legislature and to People’s Councils at all levels for the 2026–2031 term must be closely aligned with the need to safeguard political security and social order, and organised with a higher sense of responsibility, more rigorously and more comprehensively than in previous polls.
The investigation security unit has consistently upheld its role in safeguarding the Party, the regime and the people, thoroughly implementing the principle of proactively preventing threats from early and from afar to thwart hostile and reactionary forces plots and schemes, and shifting towards a more proactive and offensive posture in line with national political requirements.
These voters come from the naval, coast guard and fisheries resources surveillance units, permanent militia marine squadrons, along with oil and gas enterprises headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Vietnamese Government consistently supports and will create favourable conditions for the Vietnam News Agency to implement cooperative programmes and plans with TASS, affirmed Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
General Secretary To Lam described the two new resolutions as key additions to the Party’s major policy decisions, grounded in thorough reviews of practice and theory as Vietnam enters a new development phase.
PM Pham Minh Chinh underscored the importance of the meeting in effectively implementing key tasks and solutions, in line with the direction of Party General Secretary To Lam to pursue “breakthrough actions and generate spillover effects.”
The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat held a nationwide conference in Hanoi on February 25 to study, disseminate and implement the Politburo’s Resolution No.79-NQ/TW on developing the state-owned economic sector and Resolution No.80-NQ/TW on developing Vietnamese culture.
The foreign minister affirmed that Vietnam consistently attaches importance to its Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with Russia, as well as relations with the two parties.
