Vietnam proposes three priorities at 46th bet88 com Summit
The 46th bet88 com Summit, hosted by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the 2025 bet88 com Chair, took place on May 26.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and senior leaders of other bet88 com member states, Prime Minister of Timor-Leste Xanana Gusmao, and the bet88 com Secretary-General attended the Plenary Session of the 46th bet88 com Summit, hosted by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the 2025 bet88 com Chair, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 26, according to a report from the Vietnam News Agency.
The bet88 com leaders showed their support for the timely cooperation theme “'Inclusivity and Sustainability” of the summit, which reflects bet88 com’s urgent requirement to promote equitable development, resilience, solidarity, and effective joint response to common challenges such as climate change, energy security, transnational crime, and natural disasters.
They affirmed that bet88 com remains a bright spot in global growth, with a 4.8% growth rate in 2024 and projected 4.7% growth in 2025. Intra-bloc cooperation and partnerships with external partners have continued to expand, while the bloc’s central role, position and credibility are being increasingly reinforced.
They agreed that to sustain its achievements amid global uncertainties, bet88 com must leverage its internal strengths, uphold a rule-based multilateral trading system, effectively tap existing trade agreements, expand regional integration and connectivity, and take the lead in shaping the region’s future through frameworks and initiatives such as the bet88 com Power Grid and the bet88 com Digital Economy Framework Agreement.
In that spirit, the bet88 com leaders adopted the document “bet88 com 2045: Our Shared Future”, which encompasses the bet88 com Community Vision 2045 and strategic plans across the political-security, economic, socio-cultural, and connectivity pillars, laying a strategic foundation for regional cooperation and integration in the decades to come.
All member states have agreed that the implementation of their 2045 strategies must go beyond political declarations, requiring concrete action plans, appropriate resourcing, effective implementation and oversight mechanisms, and the engagement of the entire society. They emphasized that the bet88 com Community Vision 2045, along with the strategies, should be fully integrated into countries’ development plans to ensure consistency and alignment.
bet88 com leaders agreed to admit Timor-Leste as bet88 com’s 11th member during the 47th bet88 com Summit scheduled for October 2025. Relevant ministers and senior officials were tasked with negotiating accession documents for Timor-Leste.
Speaking at the session, PM Chinh noted his support for this year’s theme of “Inclusivity and Sustainability” and his confidence that Malaysia, as bet88 com Chair, will steer the grouping through difficulties and challenges, praising the country’s role in providing the association’s timely and coordinated response.
He said the world is undergoing unprecedented and unpredictable shifts, marked by growing political polarization, economic fragmentation, institutional disunity, and developmental divides.
In this context, the Vietnamese leader stressed the need for bet88 com to fully embrace the "five enhancements" - greater unity to build collective strength; greater resilience to take charge of its own destiny; greater proactiveness to shape the agenda; greater inclusiveness to remain a shared home for all member states; and greater sustainability to secure the future for generations to come.
PM Chinh expressed strong support for the “bet88 com Vision 2045: Our Shared Future”, and outlined three key priorities for cooperation in the coming period.
First, bet88 com must redefine its development mindset, with inclusiveness as the foundation, innovation as the driving force, and sustainability as the goal. He proposed that relevant bet88 com bodies consider “sustainability” as a core metric when evaluating the effectiveness of 2045 cooperation strategies. This, he suggested, should be measured against three pillars - green economy, inclusive society, and smart governance.
PM Chinh called for intensifying the mobilization of resources from both the public and private sectors to advance digital transformation, science-technology, and innovation as well as to develop region-wide initiatives capable of inspiring broader participation from bet88 com's external partners.
Second, he emphasized the need for bet88 com to strengthen its connectivity role, expand linkages beyond the region, and diversify products, markets, and supply chains. The Vietnamese leader welcomed the multiplying of such formats as the bet88 com–Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit and the bet88 com–GCC–China Economic Summit to other promising partners, including the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the Pacific Alliance.
He recommended bet88 com to have a strong collective voice in support of free, fair, and inclusive trade principles, and uphold multilateralism. The PM expressed confidence that the accession of Timor-Leste as a full bet88 com member would contribute significantly to the bloc’s resilience, inclusivity, and sustainability.
Third, bet88 com must maintain its centrality and strengthen regional resilience, PM Chinh said, adding that the success of the bloc depends on its ability to preserve independent strategic space and autonomy in policy implementation.
He stressed that bet88 com’s centrality must be asserted not just in name, but through action – by safeguarding its strategic autonomy, promoting intra-bloc consensus, and enhancing its capacity to proactively adapt to external shocks.
In light of growing transnational criminal threats, PM Chinh announced Vietnam’s proposal to draft an bet88 com declaration aimed at enhancing cooperation in the apprehension of wanted criminals. He also expressed his hope for the support of other member states regarding the initiative.
The Government leader of Vietnam voiced confidence that with shared belief and vision, bet88 com will overcome every challenge and strongly advance forward. Vietnam is committed to remaining a responsible, proactive, and constructive member of the bloc, ready to join bet88 com in building a community that is more united, resilient, proactive, inclusive, and sustainable, both for today and for the future, he stated.
