According to Article 64 of the United Nations Convention on Cybercrime, the Convention will be opened for signature in Hanoi in 2025. Accordingly, the Convention will be called the "Hanoi Convention".
Affirming national sovereignty in cyberspace
After nearly 5 years of negotiations, the birth of the “Hanoi Convention” is an important milestone in the international community’s joint efforts to respond to the growing threats in cyberspace. In addition to the unlimited benefits and potential for human development, digital technology and the cyberspace environment also pose many risks and security threats, threatening the sustainable development of most countries.
The alarming increase in the scale, complexity and scope of cybercrime is estimated to have caused damage to the world economy of about 8,000 billion USD in 2023 and is forecast to reach 10,500 billion by 2025, larger than the GDP of most of the world's largest economies. In this context, the Hanoi Convention contributes to creating an overarching legal framework, meeting the urgent need for international cooperation to promote the rule of law in cyberspace.
Hosting the signing ceremony of the “Hanoi Convention” will also be an opportunity for Vietnam to continue to promote its role as a responsible and trustworthy member of the international community, actively promote multilateralism, participate in leading the process of building and shaping global digital governance frameworks, ensuring cyber security and national sovereignty in cyberspace, creating a premise for successfully implementing the digital transformation strategy to prepare the country to enter a new era, an era of national growth.
With that meaning, Hanoi being chosen as the location to sign the United Nations Convention on Cybercrime further affirms Vietnam's efforts in ensuring cyber security, thereby ensuring the healthy development of the economy, and applications in cyberspace truly serving the sustainable development of Vietnam. Also there, national interests and legitimate rights of citizens are respected and guaranteed.
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| Vietnam has been making efforts to join hands with other countries to fight against all kinds of crimes in cyberspace. Illustrative photo. |
Vietnam strives to fight to make cyberspace healthy
The Hanoi Convention was born as a result of nearly 5 years of continuous negotiations lasting from 2021 to 2024 between member states to build a comprehensive multilateral legal framework to combat this dangerous crime.
This is also the time when Vietnamese authorities have made tireless efforts in the direct fight against cybercrime, especially in preventing cases of exploiting cyberspace to commit fraud in the financial and banking sectors, with many large-scale fraud cases and rings amounting to hundreds, even thousands of billions of VND.
Recently, the fraud ring led by "Mr Pips" (ie Pho Duc Nam) was exposed by Hanoi Police with the amount of fraud up to several thousand billion VND, belonging to the largest fraud rings ever brought to light.
Or recently, Bac Ninh police discovered a financial fraud ring led by Nguyen Duc Hung with a fraud amount of 10 billion VND. In particular, the case of the fraudsters including Giang Dinh Loc, Nguyen Truong Thanh, Pham Phuong Dong and Le Van Long has just been fought by Thanh Hoa police, arrested and detained with the amount of up to billions of VND and is continuing to clarify the scale and extent. Notably, this group of subjects also "linked" with many other fraud groups as well as money laundering.
Financial and banking fraud in cyberspace is still a hot spot for cybercrime. Also in the effort to combat cybercrime in particular and ensure a truly healthy cyberspace, thereby creating the necessary premises for building a healthy economy as well as creating a transparent, safe and responsible cyberspace, Decree 147/2024/ND-CP of the Government has officially taken effect since December 25, 2024. This Decree applies to domestic and foreign organizations and individuals directly involved in or related to the management, provision and use of Internet services and information on the network.
The notable point of this Decree is to create sanctions to solve the problem of “anonymity and irresponsibility” on cyberspace to hide behind fraud, tax evasion, and spreading fake news that affects the interests of organizations and individuals. These are extremely necessary sanctions in the current context of fraud cases using social networks as a tool accounting for 70%.
It is noteworthy that while countries, not just Vietnam, have made many efforts to create a healthy cyberspace to serve sustainable socio-economic development, some reactionary elements have gone against this trend by spreading arguments distorting the contents of Decree 147. They have claimed that this decree is a " golden hoop for internet users ", and even blatantly demanded that Vietnam " withdraw this decree " (!)
We are not unfamiliar with these reactionary and anti-development arguments, but we resolutely reject them. We cannot accept a cyberspace that is intentionally in a “wild” state so that hostile forces can freely sabotage the development process, using cyberspace to continue the so-called “transferring fire to the homeland” which has failed miserably in the past, as well as criminal acts that have room to exist, and the rights of the State, organizations and citizens are violated and affected.
The signing of the United Nations Convention on Cybercrime in Hanoi in 2025 has further affirmed Vietnam's efforts as a responsible member of the United Nations to join hands with other countries and international organizations to clean up cyberspace and fight effectively on a front without gunfire but no less fierce. |
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