ASEM promotes Asia-Europe ties

The 2-day 13th ASEM foreign ministers' meeting concluded on tuesday in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw. Addressing the conference, deputy prime minister Pham Binh Minh affirmed that Vietnam supports all efforts by the international community in accordance with the UN charter and international laws to find peaceful solutions to the disputes in the middle east, africa and asia.

On the sidelines of the meeting, Deputy PM Minh held separate meetings with the foreign ministers of france, luxembourg, hungary, finland, and romania. He sought greater cooperation with Europe on energy, climate change, finance-banking, tourism, and green growth, and called for creating favourable conditions for trade between Vietnam and their nations.