IPU President Tulia Ackson: Vietnam has always been a typical example of promoting gender equality, empowering women and young parliamentarians

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man meets IPU President Tulia Ackson

At the meeting, IPU President Tulia Ackson thanked National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man for taking the time to attend IPU-150; highly appreciated that since joining the IPU, Vietnam has always been an active member and that the successful hosting of the 132nd IPU Assembly in 2015 and the Global Young Parliamentarians' Conference in 2023 has made a strong impression on parliamentarians, especially in terms of thoughtful organization, discussion content and hospitality of the people; in IPU conferences and discussion sessions, Vietnam has always been cited as a typical example of promoting gender equality, empowering women and empowering young parliamentarians.

The IPU President expressed his impression of Vietnam's development achievements, including ensuring social justice and social security for the people, especially the decision to exempt all tuition fees for students from kindergarten to high school nationwide.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man speaks at the meeting

Sharing the achievements in socio-economic development and efforts to ensure social security and improve people's lives in the past time as well as major development orientations in the coming time, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man highly appreciated the important role and contributions of the IPU in implementing IPU programs and strategies, promoting cooperation between the IPU and member parliaments, enhancing the role and voice of parliaments and parliamentarians; thanking IPU President Tulia Ackson for her good feelings and active support for the country and the National Assembly of Vietnam, contributing to promoting the Vietnam - IPU cooperation relationship.

IPU President Tulia Ackson speaks at the meeting

Affirming that the Vietnamese National Assembly always supports the role of the IPU and multilateralism, the National Assembly Chairman reiterated Vietnam's outstanding contributions, especially hosting many important conferences in recent times; requested the IPU President to support Vietnam in hosting future IPU events, further promoting the Vietnam - IPU cooperation relationship, actively implementing the IPU Action Strategy for the 2022-2026 period, focusing on innovation and digital transformation, supporting the Vietnamese National Assembly in policy advice, promoting and monitoring the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

IPU President Tulia Ackson shared that, as a Tanzanian, whose country has good relations with Vietnam through both party and government channels, she hopes that the Tanzanian National Assembly and the Vietnamese National Assembly will strengthen cooperation in the coming time, especially in contacts and delegation exchanges between professional agencies of the two legislative bodies, between parliamentarians as well as sharing legislative experience between the two countries.

IPU President Tulia Ackson speaks at the meeting

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man thanked and asked IPU President Tulia Ackson, in her capacity as President of the Tanzanian Parliament, to continue actively promoting Vietnam-Tanzania cooperation and support Vietnam's participation in events and activities of the African Union.

The two sides agreed to closely coordinate to further promote the Vietnam - IPU cooperation relationship in the coming time.

On this occasion, the IPU President respectfully invited National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man to attend the 6th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in July 2025.

News and photos: Lam Giang (from Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

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