
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s workingvisit to the United Nations (UN) sends out a strong message and is anopportunity for Vietnam to affirm its foreign policy and its commitment as afriend and an active and responsible member of the international community, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, has said.
In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency, the diplomatadded through the visit, Vietnam also highlights its policy on promoting multilateraldiplomacy in the international arena.
Giang announced that the PM is scheduled to meet key leaders ofthe UN, thereby affirming Vietnam's contributions to the bloc's common agenda,especially in addressing global challenges.
He recalled Vietnam’s major contributions to the UN since itbecame a member of the organisation in 1977, including its twice holding of theposition of a non-permanent member of the Security Council and twice for theposition of a member of the Economic and Social Council, as well as its joiningof UN mechanisms on human rights, culture, and education.
On the Vietnam-UN relations in the time to come, AmbassadorGiang said the country’s position and role, consolidated and development overthe past, will continue to be heightened. Vietnam will continue to make use ofUN’s resources and experience in its sustainable socio-economic developmentand, at the same time, also continue its important contributions to the commonagenda of the organisation on peace, development, and socio-economic matters.
The ultimate goal is for both the UN and Vietnam to joinhands toward the noble objectives of the UN, keeping the future generationsfrom the tragedies of wars, and bringing about peace and stability to all thepeople in the world, he concluded./.