About 300 photos and nearly 60 films by ASEAN artists, featuring the countries, people, environmental protection and climate change in ASEAN community, are on display at an exhibition that opened at the Cultural Centre of the southern province of Binh Phuoc on December 15.
The role of women in building peace was upheld by delegates to the international conference on women, peace and security themed “Strengthening women’s role in building and sustaining peace: from commitments to results” which opened on December 7 evening.
In the midst of uncertainty and seemingly unending health and economic shocks brought about by the COVID-19 global crisis, the 41st General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA 41) is in a strategic position to serve as a platform to coordinate and integrate efforts of AIPA member parliaments to help stem the tide of the contagion, according to a Philippine official.
Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international organisations in Geneva, led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on June 15.
A meeting took place in Hanoi on July 11 to mark World Population Day (July 11) under the theme of Vietnam’s 25 years implementing the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development’ Programme of Action.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia Pham Vinh Quang on November 12 paid a courtesy visit to Vice President Jusuf Kalla who underlined the need for extra efforts to deepen win-win cooperation between the two countries.
Vietnam pursues a consistent policy of respecting and ensuring full human rights in conformity with international standards and attaches importance to cooperation and dialogue on human rights.
The Peace and Development Foundation and the Peace Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on October 13 jointly held the Day of Culture of Peace themed “For a violence-free society.”
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh received his New Zealand counterpart Winston Peters, and Papua New Guinean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Rimbink Pato on Nov 9.
Vietnam had implemented 147 out of 182 recommendations it accepted at the second UN Human Right Council UPR review, and partly realised 4 other recommendations between June 2014 to December 31, 2016.
The Prime Minister on May 28 issued an official dispatch urging urgent actions to curb and prevent illegal operation of Vietnamese fishing boats and fishermen in foreign waters.
Vietnam actively contributed to common efforts of the international community at the UN High-Level Meeting for the Euro-Asia Region on Improving Cooperation on Transit, Trade Facilitation.
UN Under-Secretary-General Gyan Chandra Acharya has appreciated the Vietnamese Government’s consistent assistance to landlocked developing countries through its participation in action programmes.
HCM City will focus on reducing pollution in rural districts and communes, local authorities said at a conference held in the city on March 3 to review the National Target Programme for New Rural Areas 2016.
Assistant to the Foreign Minister Duong Tri Dung introduced Vietnam’s women empowerment as well as gender integration in the country’s development policies and strategies.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has urged local authorities to increase inspections and punish all establishments using child labour or forced labour.
The fifth consultation between economic chiefs of the ten ASEAN member countries and Russia took place in Vientiane, Laos on August 5 under the co-chair of Lao Minister of Industry and Trade.
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