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Vietnam becomes official member of AALCO

Vietnam was warmly welcomed as a latest official member of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO) at its 56thAnnual Session on May 2 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Vietnam becomes official member of AALCO ảnh 1Vietnamese Ambassador to India Ton Sinh Thanh speaks at the session (Source: the Vietnamese Embassy in India)
NewDelhi (VNA) – Vietnam was warmly welcomed as a latest official member ofthe Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO) at its 56th Annual Session on May 2in Nairobi, Kenya.

Addressing the event, Vietnamese Ambassador to India Ton Sinh Thanh thanked theAALCO Secretariat and member nations for their support for Vietnam’s admission.

He stressed that Vietnam appreciates the organisation’s efforts to make it easyfor the member states to discuss international legal issues related to theinterests of Asian and African countries, thus giving recommendations to thecountries as well as conveying the AALCO’s viewpoints to the UN and otherinternational organisations.

Vietnam has made all-out efforts to contribute to strengthening Asia-Africa cooperationsince 1955 when it took part in the first Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung city, Indonesia (Bandung Conference), Thanhsaid.

He reaffirmed as an official member of the AALCO,Vietnam commits to enhancing links with other member countries and theSecretariat of the organisation to deploy intra-group cooperation activities inline with its Statutesand Statutory Rules.

Vietnam also wants to learn fromother AALCO member countries’ experience in international legal issues, headded.

Atthe conference, participants focused their discussion on how to fight violentextremism and terrorism, regulations and treatment of refugees, atmosphereprotection, international criminal justice exemption for State officials, andinternational law on cyberspace, which are also under discussion at the UN,especially the International Law Commission (ILC) and the UN General Assembly’s SixthCommittee.


Vietnam officially became the 47th member of the AALCO on February 24, 2017, marking a new developmentstep in the country’s international integration, especially in legal sector.

AALCO, originally known as the Asian LegalConsultative Committee (ALCC), was constituted on 15 November 1956. It is consideredto be a tangible outcome of the historic Bandung Conference held in Indonesia inApril 1955.

As the only international organisation in the world promotingsolidarity among Asian and African countries in the field of international law,AALCO has involved the codification and development of international law. It gaveopinion to the completion of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS1982).

The organisation now groups 47 member nations in both Asia and Africa.-VNA
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