Hanoi, Aug. 1 -- Party General Secretary and State President To Lam has called on Vietnam's overseas representative agencies to place diplomacy serving national development at the centre of their work, stressing that external relations must be translated into tangible resources to advance the country's growth and strategic development goals. The top leader made the call at a working session with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' leadership and Vietnamese ambassadors and heads of representative missions abroad in Hanoi on July 31 as part of the 33rd Diplomatic Conference. Reporting on the implementation of external affairs in their respective host countries, the ambassadors and heads of representative missions said that Vietnam's overseas m...