Agencies jointly provide legal assistance for ethnic minorities

The Ministry of Justice and the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs will work closely to build and issue legal documents as well as programmes and projects related to ethnic minority groups.
The Ministry of Justice and the Government Committee for Ethnic MinorityAffairs will work closely to build and issue legal documents as well asprogrammes and projects related to ethnic minority groups.

Undertheir 2014-2020 coordination programme signed in Hanoi on November 13,the two agencies will include contents involving the habits and customsand cultural identities of ethnic minority groups in the legal system ina bid to preserve and promote them.

They will also coordinatein inspecting the systematisation of legal documents in the field so asto swiftly detect shortcomings and limitations and then make timelyadjustments.

Both will jointly perform their professionalactivities to manage and supervise the implementation of ethnicminority policies.

During the period, the ministry will joinhands with the committee to build a draft law on ethnic minorityaffairs, develop and carry out legal support projects for ethnicminority communities, and run communication campaigns to raise publicawareness of the law.

Addressing the signing ceremony,Minister-Chairman of the committee Giang Seo Phu said the programmemarks a new development in the two agencies’ cooperation, adding that itcontributes to caring the lives of ethnic minority groups.

Meanwhile,Minister of Justice Ha Hung Cuong underscored the need to focus onimplementing effectively cooperation contents set in the programme.

Thecollaboration between the two agencies is expected to contribute toincreasing the quality and efficiency of building legal documents in theState management of ethnic minority affairs, thus ensuring thelegitimate rights and benefits of ethic minority inhabitants.-VNA

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