Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh chairs APEC National Committee meeting

This is the final meeting of the National Committee before the APEC 2017 Summit Week.

On the morning of September 20, at the Government Headquarters, Politburo member, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh, Chairman of the APEC 2017 National Committee chaired the 9th meeting of this Committee to evaluate the work in the past time and the preparation for the APEC 2017 Summit Week.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh speaks at the meeting.

The report at the meeting said that in the past time, the 5 sub-committees and related ministries and sectors have successfully organized the Food Security Week, the Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Conference, as well as the SOM 3 Conference and related conferences. At the same time, they are urgently preparing for the high-level week taking place in November 2017 in Da Nang city.

Member economies continued to support APEC 2017, with relatively large and high-level participation compared to recent years. Of which, the Food Security Week included 17 events with the participation of 750 delegates. The Small and Medium Enterprise Ministerial Conference was attended by 160 delegates from 20/21 member economies.

SOM 3 and 74 related meetings were held in Ho Chi Minh City with the participation of nearly 3,000 delegates. In addition, Vietnam continued to correctly assess the concerns and properly mobilize partners to reach consensus on many issues to prepare the content for the High-Level Week.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son said that so far, 7 documents have been approved by the Ministerial and SOM conferences and agreed to be reported to the Joint Economic Ministerial Conference and the high-level conference, including:

Strategy for green, sustainable and innovative micro, small and medium enterprises; Initiative on promoting start-ups and innovation; Framework for promoting cross-border e-commerce; Set of typical experiences on supporting industry development; Action plan on food security and climate change; Action plan on sustainable rural and urban development to enhance food security and quality growth; Monitoring framework for action programs on the connectivity - supply framework.

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh welcomed the ministries and sectors for successfully organizing conferences in recent times, especially in-depth conferences on fields that were assessed as successful, and said that the seven documents adopted and reaching consensus and unity among APEC member economies are extremely important.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that today's meeting is also the last meeting of the National Committee before the APEC 2017 Summit Week. Three-quarters of the work of APEC 2017 has been completed, with six ministerial meetings and three SOM meetings. So far, in terms of document content, it can be said that the conferences held in the past nine months have achieved the number of documents approved by ministerial meetings.

"The SOM conference also proposed issues for discussion, which are important premises for the summit in November in Da Nang. Up to now, the basic content of the Ministerial conferences has met expectations. That is a very basic advantage" - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh emphasized./.

According to VOV