From May 7-10, a Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Do Hung Viet participated in a dialogue session with Vietnam's National Report under the fourth cycle universal periodic review (UPR) mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
Deputy Foreign Minister Do Hung Viet said: "We had a very successful UPR dialogue session with the participation of many UN member countries. It was also a very coincidental coincidence that the dialogue session took place on the day of Dien Bien liberation, May 7, in Geneva, where the negotiation and signing of the Geneva Agreement in 1954 were witnessed."
The first message that the Vietnamese delegation brought to the conference was to affirm the importance of peace, national independence, and the right to national self-determination in the effort to develop and promote human rights.
The second major message is that in the field of ensuring and promoting human rights, there is no single correct model. Each country, depending on its circumstances, conditions, and level of socio-economic development, will be able to choose its own path. "We affirm the correctness of the path Vietnam has chosen and we will steadfastly follow that path," the Deputy Minister shared.
The third major message is that with Vietnam's consistent policy on protecting and promoting human rights, "Vietnam has seriously implemented the UPR recommendations that we accepted in the previous cycle and achieved many positive results", especially in perfecting the legal system on human rights and ensuring human rights in practice, bringing very practical results to the people.
The fourth message is that despite facing many difficulties and challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic, our country has overcome those difficulties, protected people's health and lives, restored and developed the socio-economy and improved people's lives.
The dialogue session on Vietnam's UPR Report attracted great attention, with 133 countries registering to speak and making 320 recommendations for Vietnam. Through preliminary review, most of the recommendations Vietnam received this time were positive, and we can accept them. There are some recommendations that we need to consider further in terms of their suitability with laws, policies, resources and implementation capabilities.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs said that many countries highly appreciated Vietnam's presentation and dialogue, and acknowledged Vietnam's policies, efforts and achievements in ensuring human rights and seriously implementing the UPR recommendations accepted since the previous review.
The contents that are welcomed and highly appreciated by many countries are our completion of the system of policies and laws on human rights, especially the development of national programs and many achievements in poverty reduction, economic development, improvement of social welfare, ensuring the right to education, the rights of vulnerable groups, implementing international commitments on human rights and cooperation with United Nations human rights mechanisms.
Some countries have commented and made recommendations that are not really appropriate, based on inaccurate information about ensuring freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, etc. We will continue to dialogue and provide information so that countries can better understand the actual situation in Vietnam.
Throughout the UPR cycles, Vietnam has always been highly appreciated for its efforts to seriously implement the accepted recommendations, especially through the development of national plans, mid-term reports, consultation processes, and soliciting opinions from organizations and individuals. Countries also positively appreciated the spirit of sincere, frank, and open dialogue of the Vietnamese delegation.
It is expected that Vietnam will announce its official stance on the recommendations and the number of recommendations that Vietnam will accept before the 57th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in September and October.
Established by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2008 and conducted every 4.5 years, the UPR is an intergovernmental mechanism tasked with comprehensively reviewing the human rights situation in all United Nations member states, based on the principles of dialogue, cooperation, equality, objectivity, transparency and constructiveness. The 46th session of the Working Group on the UPR of the United Nations Human Rights Council took place from April 29 to May 10, with 14 UN member states, including Vietnam. The Vietnamese delegation, including representatives from 11 ministries, sectors and agencies, had direct dialogues with countries on issues of concern in this field. |
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