Prime Minister requests Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop KPI for evaluating officials and civil servants

On May 11, Politburo Member, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung chaired a working session with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the situation of deploying work and performing tasks in the past time, orientations, key, urgent, and strategic tasks in the coming time.

Regarding key tasks and solutions for the coming time, the Prime Minister emphasized the requirement to build a clean and strong Party Committee; especially emphasizing and doing well in Party building and protecting internal politics, especially in important areas, taking timely measures early and remotely when problems arise.

Along with that, relevant parties study carefully and urgently concretize and institutionalize the foreign policy of the 14th National Party Congress into specific plans, projects and solutions, ensuring progress and quality.

The Prime Minister requested that these tasks must be submitted to the Government and the Prime Minister immediately in May, Q2/2026 and issue guiding documents and circulars (if any) to ensure immediate implementation; at the same time, the development and promulgation of legal normative documents, projects, and submissions already included in the 2026 Work Program must ensure progress.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinates with relevant ministries and agencies to urgently review and propose amendments and supplements to the Decree on the functions, tasks, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; urgently build KPIs to have a basis for evaluating cadres and civil servants; proactively build mechanisms for managing focal points for foreign affairs activities, especially foreign economic relations, investment attraction, tourism promotion, technology diplomacy...

The Prime Minister also directed the Ministry to organize well the foreign affairs program of senior leaders; must be more active and proactive, coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies in advising, proposing, and developing plans; comprehensively and strongly innovate both in content and form of organization in the direction of thrift, substance, and efficiency; closely follow the requirements of the other side and our needs to thoroughly standardize the exchange content, ensuring specificity and practicality.

At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs promotes digital transformation associated with the digitalization mechanism, urgently builds a digital management system, reviews, monitors, manages, and urges the implementation of international commitments and agreements (clearing implementation results, difficulties and obstacles, proposing and proposing solutions to remove obstacles), especially commitments and agreements after visits by senior leaders; and focuses on preparing for activities of senior leaders in the coming time.

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