Vietnam’s participation in the UN peacekeeping operations has come from its sense of responsibility. (Photo: VNA)Dr. Nguyen Hong Hai, a researcher at the Centre forPolicy Futures under the University of Queensland in Australia, told the VietnamNews Agency (VNA)’s correspondent that Vietnam’s participation in the UN peacekeepingoperations has come from its sense of responsibility.
Therefore, the country has won the trust of the UN,partners and host countries, Hai noted.
According to the researcher, Vietnam is a pioneer injoining international conventions on human rights, adding that Vietnam is thefirst country in Asia and the second in Asia-Pacific to sign and ratify the UNConvention on the Rights of the Child.
Vietnam has also joined and ratified the Convention onthe Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Conventionon the Rights of People with Disabilities.
It has integrated provisions of the conventions intodomestic laws, making the national legal framework for the disadvantaged groupsmore perfect and suitable with international standards.
During two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, theVietnamese State and Government worked hard to ensure people’s rights byproviding free-of-charge medical services and vaccination, and launching packagesin support of affected businesses and people, the researcher said.
Hai also cited statistics by the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) as saying that Vietnamlifted 40 million people out of poverty between 1993 and 2014, saying Vietnam’soutstanding economic development has been acknowledged by many international experts./.
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