A workshop on Vietnam’s 2010 Millennium Goals was jointly organised by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Hanoi on April 2.
Participants agreed on a draft which prioritised poverty reduction, compulsory primary education, improvement of gender equality, and enhancing the status of women, and mapped out remedies for these problems.
Vietnam has completed about two-thirds of a 10-year socio-economic development strategy (2000-2010) and two 5-year plans (2001-2005 and 2006-2010).
The United Nations will organise a summit this year to review the 10-year implementation of Millennium Goals and call for the ratification of international commitments on environment and climate change.
