Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Chief of the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations: Mission of maintaining peace, reinforcing international law, promoting sustainable development and human rights
Since becoming a member of the United Nations, Vietnam has made considerable contributions to disarmament and prevention of proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. When holding the post of a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Vietnam actively participated in preventing crises and peacekeeping operations, making important proposals on the protection of women and children in conflicts, promoting human rights and making peace after conflicts, improving the working mechanism of the UN Security Council.
On May 25, 2018, at the meeting of the Asia-Pacific Group held at the UN, participating countries agreed to nominate Vietnam to be the only candidate of the group for the post of non-permanent member at the UN Security Council for the 2020-2021 term. The election will be held in June 2019. The nomination has proven the fact that countries in the region highly appreciate the role and capabilities of Vietnam.
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Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy (L) and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres |
Moreover, Vietnam has increased its participation in UN peacekeeping operations. The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations was recently established on the basis of the Vietnam Peacekeeping Center (formed in 2013) to help Vietnam join UN peacekeeping operations in a more intensive and extensive manner. As from the end of 2018, Vietnam will officially become a UN training center for international peacekeeping forces, according to the UN.
Ambassador to India Ton Sinh Thanh: The “highlight” of defense-security cooperation
With the simultaneous implementation As activities in various areas of political, economic, and cultural and diplomatic activities,y have been comprehensively implemented, the Vietnam-India comprehensive strategic partnership has been developing vigorously, substantially and effectively. One of the highlights in the Vietnam-India relations is defense-security cooperation, shown in the expansion of cooperation in all military services. The cooperation is not limited to information sharing, training, and weapon purchase, but has been expanded to manufacturing of military products. For the first time, the two sides have have conducted a joint ed a naval exercise and India has become an important defense cooperation partner of Vietnam.
I believe that there still remains much room for Vietnam and India to promote their bilateral relations and nothing could prevent the two countries from deepening and heightening their comprehensive strategic partnership.
Newly-appointed ambassador to the United States Ha Kim Ngoc: An important step in Vietnam-US defense cooperation
Since the two countries established their diplomatic ties in 1995, the bilateral relationship has seen vigorous development. From former foes, the two countries established the comprehensive partnership in 2013 and enhanced and expanded cooperation in various areas, from politics, diplomacy, economy, trade, investment to defense, security, culture, education, science-technology, war consequence relief and people-to-people diplomacy.
In defense-security cooperation,bBased on the agreed contents, including the Vietnam-US Joint Vision Statement signed in 2015, the two sides have gradually expanded the defense security cooperation and achieved important results, especially in the areas of search and rescue, humanitarian aid and natural disaster consequence relief, UN peacekeeping operations, maritime training and security.
Cooperation in war consequence relief, is also an area that won has been paid special attention to, has contributed ing to building confidence and promoting the Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership. On the humanitarian basis, Vietnam has cooperated effectively with the US in the search and repatriation of remains of US soldiers missing in action during the war in Vietnam. The US side has also made remarkable efforts in UXO clearance and AO/dioxin detoxification.
Not only bilaterally, Vietnam and the US have also cooperated closely at multilateral forums such as APEC, ASEAN, ARF, etc., for peace, stability, cooperation and development of the region.
Newly-appointed ambassador to Japan and Marshall Islands Vu Hong Nam: Overseas Vietnamese affairs have been on par with the current development of time
After the success of the 29th Diplomatic Conference held in 2016, we have completed half of the Action program of the Government in promoting Resolution 36 of the Politburo on the overseas Vietnamese affairs for the period of 2016-2020. In just two years, which are not a very long period of time, the work has seen noticeable changes, bringing about breakthroughs and achievements, contributing to attracting and promoting all resources for the cause of national construction and development.
The remarkable point of the work is that it has been on par with the current development of the time, focusing on immediate demands of the country in the context of incoming Industry 4.0 to call on overseas Vietnam to make contribution. Most noticeably, the diplomatic sector has approached the group of young overseas Vietnamese, who are well-trained, dynamic and creative, but still hold a loose connection with the homeland. With this breakthrough, the overseas Vietnamese affairs have initially gathered young overseas Vietnamese intellectuals for carrying out detailed missions in developing the country.
Translated by Huu Duong