VGP - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung and a Vietnamese delegation attended the 30th ASEAN – Australia Forum held in Canberra, Australia from May 22-23. 

VGP – PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc telegraphed a message of congratulations to Mr.  Nikol Pashinyan upon his election as PM of the Republic of Armenia.

VGP – State President Tran Dai Quang cabled a message of congratulations to Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the National Day of the State of Eritrea (May 24, 1993). 

VGP - Viet Nam ranks 84th among the most powerful passports in the world with 51 visa-free destinations, according to the latest statistics of Henley Passport Index 2018 released on May 23.

VGP  - Deputy PM and FM Pham Binh Minh on May 22 sent a congratulatory message to Sergey Lavrov on his re-appointment as Foreign Minister of Russia.

VGP - Vietnamese students won one gold, four silver and two bronze medals in the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad 2018, according to the Ministry of Education and Training on May 21. 

VGP – State President Tran Dai Quang extended a message of condolences to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over the protests at the Gaza border on May 15 that caused a number of deaths and injuries. 

VGP - Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, head of the Viet Nam Permanent Mission to the United Nations, deposited with the UN Secretary General Viet Nam’s instrument of ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on May 17.