Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh leaves Hanoi for 42nd ASEAN Summit in Indonesia.

He is accompanied by high-ranking officials of the NA and ministries.

The 42nd ASEAN Summit is taking place in Labuan Bajo from May 9-11 with the participation of ASEAN member nations’ leaders. Prime Minister Timor Leste was invited to attend the summit for the first time as an observer.

Sessions within the summit will focus on the process of building ASEAN Community with the themed ““ASEAN Matters: Epicentre of Growth”, and discuss international and regional issues of mutual concern.

Dialogue sessions between leaders of ASEAN countries and representatives of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ABAC), and the High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision will be also arranged.

The summit is expected to consider and approve many important documents on cooperation in all three pillars: ASEAN political-security community, economy and socio-culture.

According to Ambassador Vu Ho, Acting head of the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) delegation of Vietnam, Vietnamese delegation will take part in the summit in an active, responsible, and creative manner to contribute to the event’s common success.

Vietnam will bring to the summit a message of consolidating solidarity and resilience, promoting the bloc’s capacity of responding and flexibly adapting to volatility, and bringing into play ASEAN’s role, voice, and sense of responsibility more strongly when engaging in common works of the region and the world, he added.

Prime Minister is due to deliver important speeches in which he will share Vietnam's views on ASEAN's priorities and Vietnam’s proposals to strengthen the process of building the ASEAN Community and enhance the relations between ASEAN and its partners, and exchange views with leaders of ASEAN member and partner countries on regional and international issues of mutual concern.