Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam Nguyen Hoa Binh delivers the opening speech of the meeting on November 5 (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - The 8thmeeting of the Council of ASEAN Chief Justices (CACJ) took place viavideoconference on November 5.
Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court ofVietnam Nguyen Hoa Binh said that since officially becoming an entity of ASEANconnectivity, the CACJ has made unceasing efforts to perfect its structure,increase activities, and boost interaction with other entities andorganisations inside and outside of the region, to further promote democracy,the efficiency of state management, the enforcement of law-governed stateprinciples, and peace, stability, and prosperity in the region.
Judicial and legal systems in the bloc integratingwith one another based on widely-recognised common standards has helped reducelaw enforcement costs, facilitated business, migration and residency ofSoutheast Asian enterprises and people, enhanced judicial systems’ transparencyand predictability, consolidated investor trust, and created the opportunity forfair capital access and competition among countries, he stressed.
CACJ has become an important cooperationchannel, he went on, helping member courts share information and experience,boost mutual understanding, and strengthen cooperative ties. It has also helpedcomplete an ASEAN Community of unity in diversity.
Participating in CACJ reflects the growingmutual understanding among judicial systems in ASEAN and the willingness toenhance both multilateral and bilateral cooperation among courts of membernations, Binh said.
At their first-ever online meeting, chiefjustices discussed ways to realise ideas and initiatives identified at previousevents. They also looked into the regional context amid the COVID-19 pandemicand the challenges facing CACJ and the courts of members, along with solutionsto those problems./.
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