The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will start negotiations with nuclear-weapon states in signing the Protocol to the Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ Treaty), according to Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi of Indonesia - the country chairing the association this year.
Minister Counselor Le Thi Minh Thoa, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), has emphasised the need to support all the three pillars of the nuclear issue, namely disarmament, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son suggested ASEAN promote the role and values of the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) while addressing a meeting of the SEANWFZ Treaty Commission in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on August 2.
Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries on February 17 issued a statement showing their concern over the existential threat facing humanity posed by the existence and modernisation of nuclear weapons, highlighting that the total elimination of nuclear weapons is the only way to guarantee against their use and threat of use.
ASEAN member countries on August 2 committed to maintaining nuclear weapon-free Southeast Asia and ensuring the right to using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes of countries.
The meeting of the Commission for the Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) was held online on September 9 following the opening ceremony and plenary session of the 53rd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Hanoi.
Ambassador and Deputy Head of the Vietnamese Mission to the UN Pham Hai Anh on August 27 underscored that it is important to provide timely, secure and unobstructed access to humanitarian aids in all areas in Syria to help the war-torn country combat COVID-19.
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh urged ASEAN member states to bolster their partnership in regional nuclear safety and security during a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 30.
Ambassador Duong Chi Dung, head of the Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, chaired the second plenary session in Geneva, Switzerland on June 28 discussing effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapon – Negative Security Assurances (NSAs).
The US’s media has made judgments about the results of the first working day of the second summit between US President Donald Trump and leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un in Hanoi on February 27.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung has attended the Executive Committee of the Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty (SEANWFZ)’s conference and the meeting between ASEAN foreign ministers and representatives from the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR).
Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament is essential to the world’s peace and security, and the total elimination of nuclear weapons is the only guarantee for countries not to be threatened with or attacked by nuclear weapons.
Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, head of the Vietnam Permanent Mission to the United Nations, deposited with the UN Secretary General Vietnam’s instrument of ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on May 17, becoming the 10th country ratifying the document.
Defence Ministers of the 10 ASEAN member nations on October 23 expressed their concern over the missiles and nuclear weapon programme of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK),
Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), reiterated Vietnam’s consistent stance in favour of disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation at the debate of the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security in New York on October 2-10.
Representatives of the 10 ASEAN member countries at the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) have criticised the missiles and nuclear weapon programme of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung led a Vietnamese delegation to the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM)and related meetings held in Manila, the Philippines on August 3-4.
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on August 3 that the country does not support the expulsion of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) despite calls from the US.
The adoption of the first-ever global treaty to ban nuclear weapons at the recent United Nations conference has great historical, ethical and legal meaning, sending out an important political message reiterating the determination and aspiration of people around the world to eliminate nuclear weapons, a Vietnamese diplomat has said.
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