Foreign Relations
In a resolution of the 10th National Party Congress, it was decided to renovate and strengthen the Party's foreign policy. The Commission for External Relations of the Central Committee, as of 2010, has good relations with 222 political parties across 115 different countries. According to official party views, this is an "important contributions to accelerating the renovation process, industrialization and modernization of Vietnam." The party, however, does not only have foreign relations with communist parties. Relations with non-communist parties have been established because the country which the party comes from is economically important to Vietnam as a state. Relations with other communist and workers parties are of upmost important, and relationship with such parties are built on "solidarity, friendship, mutual support in the struggle for socialism in the spirit of Marxism-Leninism and pure internationalism of the working class." It exchanges views with such parties on theoretical and practical issues regarding socialist construction, party building and current problems. The CPV is active in international communist and workers party gathering, such as, for instance, the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties.
The party has emphasized the importance of relations with the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the Cambodian People’s Party. It also maintains good relations with the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of Cuba and the Workers Party of Korea. The CPV sent delegations to the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in 2008, the 5th Congress of the Party of Italian Communists in 2008, the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of India in 2008, the 9th Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2008, the 18th Congress of Communist Party of Greece in 2009, the 9th Congress of the Communist Party of Denmark in 2009, the 18th Congress of the Spanish Communist Party in 2009, the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) in 2009, the 12th Congress of the Communist Party of Brazil in 2009 and the that of the Peruvian Communist Party in 2010.
Read more about this topic: Communist Party Of Vietnam
Famous quotes containing the words foreign and/or relations:
“You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”
—O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)
“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)