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NA Chairwoman’s UAE trip to improve Vietnam’s stature

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will lead a Vietnamese delegation to the United Arab Emirates to attend the 11th Global Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament slated for Dec.11-13.
NA Chairwoman’s UAE trip to improve Vietnam’s stature ảnh 1 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will lead aVietnamese delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend the 11th Global Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament slated for December 11-13.

The visitis made at the invitation of President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)Saber Chowdhury and President of the Federal National Council of the UAE AmalAl Qubaisi.

Vietnam andthe UAE established diplomatic ties on August 1, 1993. In October 1997, Vietnamopened a Consulate General in Dubai and upgraded another into an embassy in AbuDhabi in August 2008. In November 2008, the UAE opened an embassy in Hanoi.

The UAE iscurrently Vietnam’s largest importer in the Middle East and the seventh largestglobally. Two-way trade hit 6.3 billion USD in 2015, up 24 percent annually,5.7 billion USD of which are exports of mobile phones, computers, electronicproducts and spare parts, footwear, pepper, apparel and seafood.

The UAE isalso a major investor from the Gulf region with total registered capital of 4billion USD. More than 5,000 Vietnamese nationals work in the country.

The 11th Global Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament, themed “United for Shaping theFuture”, will discuss the role of parliaments and women parliament speakers’involvement in addressing challenges to social progress and prosperity.

The firstsummit of this kind was held on the occasion of the second World Conference ofSpeakers of Parliament in New York in 2015. Since then, female parliamentspeakers have met annually to discuss protecting and empowering girls andpreventing violence against women and children.

This year’sgathering, hosted by the UAE Federal National Council and the IPU, is expected to attract 50 female speakers, helpingthem network and seek solutions to gender and economic inequality, towardspromoting global peace, security and sustainable development.

TheVietnamese delegation’s participation in the Summit looks to promote the NA’srole and position at regional and global parliamentary forums and at the sametime affirm the policy on gender equality pursued by the Party and State.-VNA
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