In an interview recently granted to a Vietnam News Agencycorrespondent in Prague, Hosoda said in order to continue ensuring nationalinterests and security, improving the country’s stature on international arena,Vietnam needs to maintain balance between ensuring a stable regionalenvironment and promoting economic development.
Specifically, he suggested Vietnam pay attention to joiningASEAN’s cooperation mechanisms and other multilateral cooperation frameworkswith the participation of the US, Australia, Japan, the UK and the EuropeanUnion to shape international code of conduct.
Additionally, Vietnam needs to keep boosting multilateraltrade and mutually beneficial economic relations within the framework ofmultilateral free trade agreements, especially the Comprehensive andProgressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the EuropeanUnion – Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), he said.
In particular, Vietnam also needs to enhance trust ininternational relations by reinforcing bilateral and multilateral cooperativeties in a more substantial and effective manner, for the sake of peace,stability and development in the region and the world.
The scholar also expressed his special impression ofVietnam’s success in controlling COVID-19 pandemic and sustaining economicdevelopment, saying that while countries suffered negative growth due to thepandemic, Vietnam was one of a few economies to achieve a growth of 2.91percent last year.
According to him, the success demonstrated Vietnameseleaders’ prestige, capability and determination when facing difficulties.
Hosoda also highlighted the Southeast Asian nation’simportant external achievements thanks to multilateral foreign and globaleconomic integration policies.
As ASEAN Chair in 2020, Vietnam actively worked to raiseinternational community’s awareness about the importance of international maritimesecurity besides other issues. Major powers like the US, Australia, India,Japan and European nations actively contributed to maintaining maritimesecurity and freedom in Indo-Pacific and Southeast Asia in particular.
In global integration, Hosoda hailed Vietnam for activelysigning important multilateral trade deals like the CPTPP and EVFTA, which heldstrategic significance and created a driving force for Vietnam to develop itseconomy.
In Russia,the Independent, the most popular newspaper in Russia, recently published anarticle by Chairman of the Council of Experts of the Eurasian Research FundGrigory Trofimchuk on important leadership changes in Vietnam.
Among fournew pillar leaders, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and StatePresident Nguyen Xuan Phuc have been known among and trusted by many Russianpeople.
Pham MinhChinh is considered “the PM of the fourth industrial revolution” in Vietnamwhile NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue will assume great responsibility asinter-parliamentary cooperation is becoming an important factor of globalsecurity and stability, he wrote.
The authorsaid Vietnam is now among 40 largest economies and 16 most successful emergingeconomies in the world. It also climbed three spots in the global soft powerrankings.
Concludingthe article, he said Vietnam’s leadership apparatus has been completed and isready to perform harder and more ambitious tasks set by the 13th National Party Congress./.