Vietnam puts forwards confidence building initiatives at Asia summit

VOV.VN - Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan put forward three major initiatives at the sixth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA 6) which opened in Kazakhstan on October 13.

She suggested that CICA uphold the spirit of cooperation, action and responsibility to create a peaceful and stable environment for development in compliance with the UN Charter and international law.

In her opinion, CICA needs to actively participate in shaping and leading the strong transformational trends of a new Asia to ensure fast, sustainable and inclusive recovery and development after the pandemic.

In addition, she said CICA should promote the complementarity between regional and inter-regional cooperation and linkage mechanisms in order to form an open, multi-tiered network.

The Vice President emphasized the efforts the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has made to maintain peace and stability in Southeast Asia, ensure freedom of navigation and overflight, and settle disputes by peaceful means, while respecting the law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

She took this occasion to reiterate Vietnam’s foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, multilateralization and diversification of relations.

Vietnam, as a reliable and responsible member of the international community, is ready to engage in all confidence building efforts within the framework of CICA for peace and cooperation and development, she stressed.

In his speech, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev noted after 30 years of development, CICA has become an important forum for coordination of actions and confidence building in Asia. He expected that CICA would conduct institutional transformation and operation to gradually become a regional organization for security and development cooperation.

Given the global complex developments, increasing geopolitical tensions and non-traditional security risks, he said CICA member countries should strengthen solidarity, dialogue and cooperation, and promote investment, trade, infrastructure connectivity, as well as people-to-people exchanges for the sake of a peaceful, stable and prosperous Asia.

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