Addressing the event, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son notedthat after 35 years of renewal, Vietnam now has a great ambition of becominga developed country with high income in 2045.
The official asked participants to identify global trends that maygenerate opportunities for Vietnam to make development breakthroughs, whilesharing international experience and lessons in optimising post-pandemic trends for economic recovery, and proposing suitable policies for Vietnam.
UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Kamal Malhotra mentioned rising concern about the three major crises to the globe which are climate change, loss of biodiversity,and pollution, which threaten the achievements and development prospects in thefuture.
The US-China geo-political tensions and the inequality in COVID-19vaccine distribution may also harm multilateral cooperation, he said, expressing hisimpression at the fast movement in world to catch up with new and pioneeringtechnologies, thus supporting the maintenance of essential services and economic activities.
According to Malhotra, the increasing inequality inside eachcountry and among countries has become a big and worrying trend. Therefore,the reduction of inequality and the pursuing of green and resilient recoverypolicies are the highest targets of the UN.
He said he hopes the talk will help seek new ideas for therecovery process.
In the framework of the event, three discussion sessions were held ondigital transformation, the transition of growth model towards inclusive,self-reliant and sustainable and green recovery orientations.
They also gave a number of policy recommendations to helpVietnam tap opportunities from major global trends, thus combining outsideresources with internal strengths to make breakthroughs towards realising the goalsset at the 13th National Party Congress./.