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With the role of the co-chair of the ADMM-Plus Experts' Working Group on Military Medicine with Brunei, Australia and ASEAN will have many practical activities to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic together.

Vietnam has shown concern about Israel's continuous expansion of resettlement areas in the West Bank affirming that the activity is against international law and weaken the prospect of the two-state solution.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, has called on concerned parties to fully observe the international humanitarian law to prevent hunger in Ethiopia.

Germany’s Junge Welt newspaper ran an article on November 6 that spotlighted the signing of agreements worth millions of EURs between Vietnam and France during Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s visit to France.

Vietnam’s strong commitments at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, held in Glasgow, Scotland (the UK), have been well received by the international community.

Indonesia and Australia, the world’s two biggest coal exporters, have announced a commitment to work together to develop new energy technologies as part of their strategy to attain net-zero emissions.

Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, has expressed his concern about the volatile situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Italy’s Marx21 website on November 2 ran an article by Giulio Chinappi, saying Vietnam plays a central role at the 38th and 39th ASEAN Summits.

The sixth ASEAN Supreme Audit Institutions Summit opened on November 2 under the chair of Auditor General of the Union of Myanmar Kan Zaw, who is also vice chairman of ASEANSAI in the 2019-2021 term.

A 5.9 magnitude quake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on November 1, but there was no tsunami warning or immediate reports of damage, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The Fiscal Policy Office of Thailand forecast this country’s economy will pick up next year at 4 percent as the pandemic situation is expected to improve and the country reopens on November 1.

A regional power grid for Southeast Asia has been proposed, with first trials set for 2022, as regional countries are speeding up their renewable energy transmission plans in efforts to meet climate change targets.