Vietnam shares experiences at int'l conference on countering violent extremism

The event drew more than 40 delegations from countries and organisations, including President of the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi, representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

In his speech, Deputy Minister Lam briefed on the current social situation in Vietnam, which is internationally recognised for its peace, stability, and status as a reliable, safe, civilised and progressive destination. However, there are still some potentially complex factors related to extreme violence and terrorism activities.

In order for people to live happily in a safe and secure environment, the Party and State of Vietnam have concertedly applied many solutions, he said.

The country has paid special attention to developing the economy, ensuring social security, and continuously improving the happiness index, considering this as the most fundamental solution to minimise the underlying factors of terrorism and extreme violence. It has issued policies, laws, and regulations on ethnic and religious affairs on the basis of respecting and ensuring the freedom of belief, while creating conditions for all ethnic minorities to narrow the development gap under the motto of "no one is left behind."

Vietnam has also improved the efficiency of state management over activities in cyberspace, strengthened the great national solidarity bloc by boosting socio-economic development to gradually reduce the development gap among communities and regions, and intensified bilateral and multilateral cooperation in combating extremisation, extreme violence and terrorism, the official elaborated.

To date, Vietnam is a member of 13 out of 19 United Nations international conventions on counter-terrorism, and has participated in many international treaties on human rights and the rights of ethnic minorities.

Proposing several solutions to practically strengthen international cooperation in the field, he underlined the need to rely on the fundamental principles of the UN Charter and international law, respect the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries, and not interfere in countries' internal affairs in combating terrorism, extremisation and extreme violence.

In addition, it is necessary to boost cooperation among countries, particularly their law enforcement agencies, in sharing information in a timely manner, combating and preventing activities that show signs of extreme violence, preventing sources of funding, and preventing early and from afar.

Other solutions include strengthening exit and entry management, as well as the management of foreigners living, studying and working in each country; intensifying collaboration to resolve the root causes of extremisation, extreme violence and terrorism; and narrowing the gap in the capacity of fighting extremisation and extreme violence among countries, with technology transfer increased.