An inter-sectoral conference to review two-years of Vietnam’s assumption of United Nation Security Council (UNSC) non-permanent membership during the 2008-09 term was held in Hanoi on Feb. 9 under the chairmanship of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem.

Attending the function were leaders and representatives of the Party Central Committee Office, National Assembly Office and Government Office, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Public Security, the Party Central Committee’s External Relations Commission.

Vietnam has fulfilled its mission as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and achieving the target of maintaining independence and self-reliance, said the participants.

The country has actively contributed and showed its responsibility in seeking peaceful solutions to various international conflicts and disputes, thus contributing to raising Vietnam’s international position and prestige and promoting the relationship between Vietnam and other countries worldwide, the UN and other international organisations, said attendees.

Additionally, the nation has also contributed to protecting a peaceful and stable environment, facilitating national construction and defence.

Deputy PM and FM Pham Gia Khiem described the success of Vietnam’s participation in the UNSC as the country’s major foreign affairs event in 2009, which, he said, has contributed to the implementation of the Xth National Party Congress’s foreign affairs policy as well as to theory and practical experiences in the future foreign affairs work.

This is the success of the entire Party and people under the leadership of the Party and State, said Khiem, saying that it reflects the country’s big achievements in internal and external relations in the renewal process.

He took the occasion to thank and highlight the active involvement and close coordination among relevant ministries and sectors, mass media, domestic agencies and Vietnamese representative agencies abroad./.