Cebu: Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung has attended the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat (AMMR) and related meetings from January 28-29 in Cebu, Philippines, at the invitation of his Filipino counterpart Maria Theresa P. Lazaro. Trung led the Vietnamese delegation to the extended informal consultation at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' level on the implementation of the Five-Point Consensus (5PC) on Myanmar, chaired by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines - the ASEAN Chair in 2026, on January 28.

According to Vietnam News Agency, earlier the same day, on the sidelines of AMMR in Cebu, Trung held meetings with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn, and his Philippine and Thai counterparts - Theresa P. Lazaro and Sihasak Phuangketkeow, as well as Bruneian second FM Dato Erywan Yusof. On January 29, Trung and the Vietnamese delegation are scheduled to continue attending AMMR to discuss and endorse priority cooperation directions for ASEAN in 2026.