Vietnam calls for multinational efforts to cope with security threats

Vietnam calls for multinational efforts to cope with global security threats

Ensuring national security and sustainable socio-economic development in the context of growing security threats is an urgent and challenging task for all countries around the world.
Vietnam calls for multinational efforts to cope with global security threats ảnh 1Minister of Public Security Gen. To Lam (first from left) delivers a speech at the event (Photo: VNA)

Moscow (VNA) –
Ensuring nationalsecurity and sustainable socio-economic development in the context of growingsecurity threats is an urgent and challenging task for all countries around theworld, which needs their concerted efforts, Vietnamese Minister of PublicSecurity General To Lam has said.

Lam made the statement at the 10th internationalmeeting of high-ranking officials responsible for security matters in Russia onJune 18. Hundreds of delegates from 120 countries and representatives from theUnited Nations (UN) took part in the three-day event.

The minister said the current border, sea andisland sovereignty disputes are developing complicatedly and posing potentialrisk of military conflicts, directly threatening peace, stability, security,safety and freedom of aviation and navigation.

He also mentioned threats posed by high-techcrime to steal information, intellectual property and state secrets as well asincreasing terrorism and extremism activities in some regions, and othernon-traditional security risks such as cross-border crime, climate change,diseases, crises, and exhaustion of natural and fuel resources.

In that context, Vietnam has gained a lot ofachievements in national building, protection and development over the pastyears, Lam said.

From Vietnam’s experience, he proposed somemeasures to ensure national security and sustainable socio-economic developmentsuch as promoting national internal strength; respecting independence andsovereignty of countries and international law; enhancing multinational andregional cooperation; and increasing the role of organisations, regions, andgroups linking countries in the world in preventing and combating threats.

The minister affirmed that Vietnam is willing tocooperate with other countries in the region and the world as well as shareexperience with international law enforcement agencies and organisations tostrengthen capacity to ensure national security and sustainable socio-economicdevelopment, contributing to the maintenance of peace and stability in eachcountry.

On the sidelines of the meeting, Lam met withrepresentatives from China, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Mongolia, to discussmeasures to step up cooperation in the fight against trans-national crime, drugcrime, high-tech crime, human trafficking, and money laundering.

Earlier, at a working session withRadiy Khabirov, Acting Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Lam highlightedthe growing comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia inall fields with increasing political trust. 

Khabirov affirmed that local authorities willcreate all favourable conditions for Vietnamese businesses to invest in Bashkortostan.

Lam also met with Sergey Naryshkin,Director of the Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, and attended a receptionhosted by Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev for headsof delegations from ASEAN countries.-VNA
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