After 40 years of renewal, Viet Nam has recorded numerous wide-ranging accomplishments in international integration, expanding and deepening relations with partners and elevating them to a new level, thereby helping to shape a favourable strategic landscape and enhance the nation’s overall strength, firmly protect nnational independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity, while maintaining a peaceful and stable environment, and improving the country’s potential, position, and prestige.

The issuance of Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW is a breakthrough policy marking a historic turning point in the country’s process of international integration, identifying integration as a strategic driving force for Viet Nam to firmly enter a new era.

The consistent viewpoint of the resolution is that international integration is the cause of the entire nation, under the absolute, direct, and comprehensive leadership of the Party and the unified management of the state, with people and enterprises as the centre and as the creative subjects.

Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW

STRATEGY AND OBJECTIVES OF INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION

The Party Central Committee

1 Overall objectives

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Peace and stability

Contribute to maintaining a peaceful and stable environment and make practical contributions to the country’s development and defence from an early stage and from afar.

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An independent and sustainable economy

Maximise external resources and favourable conditions to build an independent, self-reliant, and resilient economy that can grow rapidly and sustainably.

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International standing

Strengthen the nation’s overall strength; enhance Viet Nam’s role, standing, and international prestige, with the aim that by the middle of the 21st century Viet Nam becomes a developed, high-income country with a socialist orientation.

2 Tasks and solutions

01 Strengthen the Party’s leadership and renew thinking, awareness, and action in international integration under the new circumstances.
02 Enhance the effectiveness of international economic integration in service of building an independent, autonomous, self-reliant and resilient economy; accelerate economic restructuring, renew the growth model, and promote digital transformation.
03 Deepen international integration in politics, national defence and security in a more comprehensive and effective manner, contributing to maintaining a peaceful and stable environment, promoting socio-economic development, protecting the Fatherland early and from afar, and enhancing the country’s capacity and international standing.
04 Intensify international integration in science, technology and innovation, contributing to enhancing national competitiveness, expanding space for sustainable development, and modernising the country.
05 Step up international integration across culture, society, tourism, the environment, education and training, health, and other fields.
06 Enhance the capacity to implement international commitments and agreements, while strengthening the inspection and supervision of their execution, and vigorously perfecting domestic institutions, policies, and laws.
07 Raise the effectiveness and efficiency of directing and coordinating international integration efforts; promote the active and proactive role of local authorities.

SOURCES OF REFERENCE

SPEECHES OF PARTY GENERAL SECRETARY TO LAM

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMPLEMENTING FOUR KEY RESOLUTIONS OF THE POLITBURO

OVERVIEW: NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMPLEMENTING FOUR KEY RESOLUTIONS OF THE POLITBURO

BRIEFING ON KEY POINTS OF POLITBURO’S RESOLUTION NO. 59-NQ/TW DATED JANUARY 24, 2025 ON INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION IN THE NEW CONTEXT

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