Indonesian scholar impressed by Vietnamese top legislator’s speech at external policy forum

The speech by Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue at an external policy forum held in Jakarta on August 5 is very impressive, comprehensive and visionary, as it refers to all aspects of not only the Indonesia-Vietnam relationship, but also ASEAN and its relations with its partners, and other issues.
Indonesian scholar impressed by Vietnamese top legislator’s speech at external policy forum ảnh 1Ibnu Hadi, a lecturer at the Faculty of International Relations under Indonesia’s President University (Photo: VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) – The speech by Chairman of the Vietnamese NationalAssembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue at an external policy forum held in Jakarta onAugust 5 is very impressive, comprehensive and visionary, as it refers to allaspects of not only the Indonesia-Vietnam relationship, but also ASEAN and itsrelations with its partners, and other issues.

The assessment was made by Ibnu Hadi, a lecturer at the Faculty ofInternational Relations under Indonesia’s President University, who is also a formerIndonesian Ambassador to Vietnam.

According to him, Hue’s speech at the forum themed “TheVietnam-Indonesia steadfast strategic partnership: Striving for a dynamic andinclusive Asia and Pacific region of peace, cooperation and development” istruly a perfect complement to actions and policies of Vietnamese lawenforcement agencies.

Ibnu agreed with Hue’s statement that the people are theroot of all of Vietnam’s development policies and they must be entitled to enjoy all thefruits of the development.

Indonesian scholar impressed by Vietnamese top legislator’s speech at external policy forum ảnh 2National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue speaks at the external policy forum (Photo: VNA)
This is completely true because in most countries, both thegovernment as the executive body and the parliament as the legislative body areelected by the people. Therefore, the people must be at the core of all actionsof the government and parliament. And works taken by the government and the parliamentmust ensure that all of their decisions are in the interest of the people, headded.

Ibnu stated that Vietnam now has a very open economy and engages in many trade agreements such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement forTrans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Regional Comprehensive EconomicPartnership (RCEP). In addition, Vietnam is also active in building andexpanding its economy, reflected through this official visit to Indonesia by thetop legislator of Vietnam, as he is accompanied by leaders of many largeenterprises such as Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet and Vinfast.

He expressed his hope that through this visit, Vietnamesebusinesses will have more cooperation activities with Indonesian partners./.

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