Plan issued to implement NA resolution on joining UN peacekeeping operations
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a decision issuing a plan to implement Resolution 130/2020/QH14 of the National Assembly on joining the UN peacekeeping operations.
Vietnam has actively joined the UN peacekeeping operations. (Photo: Permanent mission of Vietnam to the UN)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc has signed a decision issuing a plan to implement Resolution 130/2020/QH14 of the NationalAssembly on joining the UN peacekeeping operations.
The plan assigned tasks to ministries, ministerial-level andgovernment agencies to ensure the timely, synchronousand effective realisation of the resolution.
Ministries and agencies will review legal documents to find those that are no longer suitable or are contrary to regulations of the resolution, and propose necessary adjustments, supplements, or the issuing of new ones to replace outdated ones.
The Ministry of National Defence will coordinate with otherministries and agencies to build and submit to the Government a decree prescribing detailed regulations in connection with certain articles of the above-said resolution.
It will also build projects on the implementation of theresolution and submit them to the PM for approval.
Joint efforts will also be made to popularise the resolution and legal documents giving detailed guidance for the implementation, in order to raise public awareness of Vietnam’s joining UNpeacekeeping operations.
Resolution No. 130/2020/QH14 was adopted by the 14th NA during its 10th session on November 13, 2020, and will takeeffect from July 1, 2021.
It stipulates principles, forms, fields, forces, authority, procedures for deployment,funding, along with treatment policies and State management in joining UN peacekeeping operations.
Vietnam's first joined UN peacekeeping operations in 2014 when the Ministry of National Defence senttwo officers to serve at the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan./.
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The Party chief underscored the need for the press to innovate relentlessly, evolve to keep pace with the country's development, transform into a truly professional, humanistic, and modern sector that serves the cause of the Party, the State, and the people on the path to national construction and development.
The UN Secretary-General praised Vietnam’s remarkable achievements in socio-economic development and international integration in recent years, noting that the country has emerged as a model in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), promoting international peace and security, and engaging in key UN processes.
Nghia affirmed that this is a milestone of special significance, affirming and honouring the the Vietnamese revolutionary press’s glorious tradition of 100 years of serving the revolutionary cause of the Party, serving the Fatherland, and serving the people.
The Party and State of Vietnam always attach great importance to and give top priority to the development of Vietnam–China relations. Vietnam is ready to work with the Chinese Party and State to further deepen the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and promote the building of the Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.
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Vietnam has actively joined the UN peacekeeping operations. (Photo: Permanent mission of Vietnam to the UN) 
