Party General Secretary and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong made the remark while receiving a delegation of key ICAPP officials in Hanoi on April 19.

He spoke highly of ICAPP’s success over the past decade, stressing the important role of multilateral forums for political parties in the socio-political life of the region and the world, promoting cooperation and exchange between political parties and cooperation between countries.

In the face of fluctuations in the world, Mr. Trong said, political parties need to enhance cooperation, creating common awareness and consensus in order to find effective measures to cope with regional and global challenges.

He expressed his belief that the ICAPP will further promote its role and influence, not only in the region, but also expand cooperation with political parties and multilateral organisations for political parties in other regions.

The ICAPP officials congratulated Vietnam and the CPV on achievements in the past 25 years of the renewal process, and on the country’s increasing role and prestige in the region and the world.

They believed that the Vietnamese people will successfully implement goals set by the 11th Party Congress’ Resolution.

The ICAPP leaders informed the General Secretary of key results over the past decade of the ICAPP’s operation. With the participation of nearly 100 political parties in Asia, ICAPP has become the world’s largest multilateral forum for political parties.

As a member of the ICAPP Standing Committee, the CPV has made positive contributions to the forum’s development, they said.

Earlier, the ICAPP delegation and Hoang Binh Quan, member of the CPV Central Committee and head of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, held talks, discussing specific measures to boost cooperation between the CPV and ICAPP and its Standing Committee.

They agreed that the CPV will host a regular meeting of the ICAPP Standing Committee in Hanoi in the near future.

The ICAPP delegation included Jose De Venecia Jr, Founding Chairman and Co-Chair of the ICAPP Standing Committee, and Chung Eui-yong, Co-Chairman of the ICAPP Standing Committee and Secretary General of the ICAPP Secretariat.