The article highlighted the friendship and multi-faceted cooperation between Vietnam and Latin American nations, saying it made important, outstanding progress in the year.

The article ran by the El Popular (People) e-newspaper.

It commended the concerted and comprehensive implementation of the foreign policy by Vietnam, which covers all the Party, State and people-to-people diplomacy, and demonstrates the country’s “bamboo diplomacy.”

The term “bamboo diplomacy” was coined by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong at a diplomatic conference in 2016 and reiterated at the first national conference on foreign affairs in 2021. At these meetings, the leader likened Vietnam’s foreign policy to bamboo, with strong roots, solid stems, and flexible branches.

The article said Vietnam’s high-ranking leaders made more than 40 visits to neighbouring countries, important partners and traditional friends, and welcomed nearly 50 leaders of foreign countries and international organisations last year.

Such activities contributed to raising the quality of Vietnam’s external affairs and international integration, as well as the country’s position and reputation in the international arena, it noted.

It recalled the visits to Cuba, Argentina and Uruguay by National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue from April 22-29, 2023, and another to Brazil by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh from September 23-25 in the same year.

Vietnam also welcomed many high-ranking delegations from countries in the region, including those led by President of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba Esteban Lazo Hernandez; former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet; El Salvador's Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco; and Minister of Policies for Regional Integration of the Dominican Republic Miguel Mejía; and Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Business, Trade and Energy of the Commonwealth of Dominica Vince Henderson, the article said.

Further efforts planned to promote Vietnamese bamboo diplomacy: FM

The diplomatic sector will continue to focus on strongly developing the identity of the Vietnamese bamboo diplomacy in 2024 by concentrating on a number of focal points, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son told the media on the occasion of the coming New Year.

Staying persistent but flexible in diplomacy: Party chief

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong stressed the need to stay consistent in principles and flexible in policies and strategies while performing diplomatic tasks, in his remarks at the 32nd National Diplomatic Conference that opened in Hanoi on December 19.

Party leader's book on Vietnam's diplomacy launched

A book of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on the building and development of Vietnam’s diplomacy deeply imbued with the characteristics of “Vietnamese bamboo” made debut at a ceremony held in Hanoi on November 21.

A sip of diplomacy: US Secretary of State's egg coffee encounter

Nestled on Hang Bun Street, All Day Coffee, housed in a beautifully restored century-old building, hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday.

Economic diplomacy contributes to national development

Over the past 78 years since its establishment, the diplomatic service was a strategic front during the struggle for national defence and reunification and a pioneering force in establishing and expanding international relations, attracting external resources for development, raising the country's position, contributing to creating and maintaining a stable external environment, for socio-economic development during the cause of national construction and development and international integration.

Source: VNA