The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has stronglycondemned China’s violent acts targeting Vietnamese fishermen within thewaters of Vietnam, at the 103rd International Labour Conference ofthe International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva.
In his speech delivered at the conference’s June 10 sitting, VGCLPresident Dang Ngoc Tung spoke on detail about China’s acts in violationof international law since it illegally positioned its oil rig HaiyangShiyou-981 in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
He particularly objected to China’s inhuman actsagainst Vietnamese fishermen who were undertaking their regularoperations in their traditional Hoang Sa fishing grounds.
Chinese ships have continuously constraining, driving away and ramminginto Vietnamese fishing boats, causing damage to many boats andinjuring many people on board, Tung said.
Moreseriously, Chinese forces beat and injured many Vietnamese fishermen,even sinking a Vietnamese fishing vessel, putting the on-boardfishermen’s lives in danger, stated Tung.
TheVietnamese official spoke highly of the main contents discussed at theMay 28-June 12 conference, including the amendments to the 1930 ForcedLabour Convention and the implementation of the ILO Declaration onSocial Justice for a Fair Globalisation passed at the 98thInternational Labour Conference in 2008.
He reportedthat over the past times, the VGCL has actively coordinated withVietnamese and ILO social partners to carry out the 2012-16 Vietnam-ILONational Cooperation Programme on Sustainable Employment, the “Betterwork” project and the Tripartite Action to Protect Migrant Workerswithin and from the Greater Mekong Sub-region from Labour Exploitation.
During its stay in Geneva from June 9-12, theVietnamese delegation met ILO Director General Guy Rider, RegionalDirector for Asia and the Pacific Yoshiteru Uramoto, and Director of ILOBureau for Workers’ Activities Helena Andre.
Italso had meetings with trade union delegations from Singapore, Laos andCuba and attended the open Presidential Council of the World Federationof Trade Unions.-VNA
In his speech delivered at the conference’s June 10 sitting, VGCLPresident Dang Ngoc Tung spoke on detail about China’s acts in violationof international law since it illegally positioned its oil rig HaiyangShiyou-981 in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
He particularly objected to China’s inhuman actsagainst Vietnamese fishermen who were undertaking their regularoperations in their traditional Hoang Sa fishing grounds.
Chinese ships have continuously constraining, driving away and ramminginto Vietnamese fishing boats, causing damage to many boats andinjuring many people on board, Tung said.
Moreseriously, Chinese forces beat and injured many Vietnamese fishermen,even sinking a Vietnamese fishing vessel, putting the on-boardfishermen’s lives in danger, stated Tung.
TheVietnamese official spoke highly of the main contents discussed at theMay 28-June 12 conference, including the amendments to the 1930 ForcedLabour Convention and the implementation of the ILO Declaration onSocial Justice for a Fair Globalisation passed at the 98thInternational Labour Conference in 2008.
He reportedthat over the past times, the VGCL has actively coordinated withVietnamese and ILO social partners to carry out the 2012-16 Vietnam-ILONational Cooperation Programme on Sustainable Employment, the “Betterwork” project and the Tripartite Action to Protect Migrant Workerswithin and from the Greater Mekong Sub-region from Labour Exploitation.
During its stay in Geneva from June 9-12, theVietnamese delegation met ILO Director General Guy Rider, RegionalDirector for Asia and the Pacific Yoshiteru Uramoto, and Director of ILOBureau for Workers’ Activities Helena Andre.
Italso had meetings with trade union delegations from Singapore, Laos andCuba and attended the open Presidential Council of the World Federationof Trade Unions.-VNA
