Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Chairman of the National Committee on APEC 2017 on September 20 in Hanoi chairs a meeting of National Committee on APEC 2017. Photo: An Dang/VNA

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong assured Liu Yunshan, Politburo Standing Committee member and Secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee that Vietnam attaches special importance to ties with China at a reception in Hanoi on September 18. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has pledged favorable conditions for foreign investors, including those from Rent-A-Port when he visited the group’s head office in Antwerp city, Belgium, on September 17, as part of his European tour. In the photo: Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue and his entourage in Antwerp. Photo: Kim Chung/VNA

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan visits a milk factory owned by Viet Nam Dairy Products Joint-Stock Company (Vinamilk) in the southern province of Binh Duong on September 17. The 115 million US dollars mega-factory, which began production in 2013, is one of the world's most modern milk factories in Viet Nam. Photo: Trong Duc/VNA

On September 15, 2017, within the 38th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-38) in Manila, the Philippines, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong holds bilateral meetings with Chairwoman of the Lao National Assembly Pany Yathotou, President of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) of Thailand Pornpetch Wichitcholchai and Cambodian National Assembly President Samdech Heng Samrin. In the photo: Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong meets with Cambodian National Assembly President Samdech Heng Samrin. Photo: VNA