Vietnam made active contributions to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 34th session in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 23-24, which adopted 42 resolutions and decisions.
The An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBANK) has officially become a member of the United Nations Environment Programme - Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received three United Nations Under-Secretary-Generals in Hanoi on March 7, saying that Vietnam attaches special importance to relations with the UN.
Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, head of the Permanent Vietnam Mission to the United Nations, presented five proposals to eradicate wildlife trade during an event on the fringe of a ceremony on March 3.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has awarded Ritsu Nacken, Deputy Representative in Vietnam of the UNFPA a medal for her dedicated services in her three-year term in the country.
Chef de Cabinet to the United Nations Secretary General Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti has spoke highly of the role of Vietnam in the UN and that of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
The Vietnam National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation will work to increase Vietnam’s role in multilateral forums, said Chairman Le Hoai Trung.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI) held a seminar in Hanoi on December 21 discussing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its implementation in Vietnam.
All countries must have goodwill and responsibility to comply with regulations in the UN 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982 UNCLOS), Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga has said.
Scholars stressed the need to peacefully settle East Sea disputes in line with international law at an international workshop held in Geneva, Switzerland on December 6.
President Tran Dai Quang has sent congratulatory messages in response to United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (November 29).
The Women’s Association of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and the KOCUN jointly launched a project to support Vietnamese women married to the Republic of Korea men on October 27 in Can Tho city.
A resolution calling for the end of the US embargo on Cuba was passed by 191 votes to zero at a plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on October 26.
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with outgoing UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Pratibha Mehta on October 24, asking her to continue supporting relationships between the UN and his country on her new posts.
Vietnam is recording the highest proportion of young people in its history, with people between the ages of ten and 24 representing nearly 40 percent of the total population.
President Tran Dai Quang expressed his pleasure at the development of the relationship between Vietnam and the UN in the past five years during the tenure of UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam.
The 14th round of the annual human rights dialogue between Vietnam and Switzerland recently took place in Bern city, Switzerland in a candid, sincere and constructive manner.
Vietnam hopes that newly-elected UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will actively mobilise resources and partnerships to successfully realise the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.
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