Hanoi, Jan. 1 -- Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung has highlighted Vietnam's 2025 diplomatic achievements and their contributions to the country's strategic goals in his article recently published to mark the New Year 2026.

Trung, who is also Secretary of the Party Central Committee, wrote that Vietnam's external affairs, firmly anchored in the foreign policy set at the 13th National Party Congress, produced important and substantive results across bilateral and multilateral aspects and in various areas in 2025. These successes helped maintain a peaceful and stable environment, attract external resources for development, and steadily raise Vietnam's global standing.

Bilateral diplomacy was marked by dynamic and wide-ranging acti...