UNDP helps Vietnam improve international integration
(VOV) - Hanoi has held a December 20 ceremony to launch a project on improving the capacity of Vietnam’s international integration with a vision to 2020”.
The first part of the project covers the 2012–2014 period.
Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and UNDP Country Director Louise Chamberlain signed the document entering the project into operation.
Addressing the ceremony, Deputy Minister Son highlighted the significance of the UNDP-funded project to further the international integration of Vietnam’s relevant ministries, agencies, and localities.
He affirmed the project has the valuable support of international friends, noting the UN’s approval of Vietnam’s renovation and international integration policies.
Louise Chamberlain, UNDP Country Director in Vietnam, praised Vietnam’s determination to pursue the process and promised to coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure its effectiveness
This is the first project relating to Vietnam’s international integration. The 2012–2014 period is a crucial part of the socio-economic development plan’s implementation, laying a foundation for the 2011–2020 strategy for making Vietnam a modern industrialised nation by its conclusion.
The stage includes the important integrative steps of building an ASEAN community by 2015, completing WTO commitments by 2018, and signing five new free trade agreements along with the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
The PM has assigned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) the responsibility for implementing the project.
It will initially focus on running a training program in collaboration with Harvard University for high-level leaders, conducting research and policy exchanges on international integration, and supporting activities promoting the nation’s image.