VOV.VN - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in Vietnam launched a songwriting contest on gender equality on October 5 in Hanoi.

It is necessary to promote international cooperation to support countries in implementing international commitments to ensure the full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in all areas of social life, contributing to preventing violence and discrimination, said Minister Counsellor Le Thi Minh Thoa, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations.

The Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (VDPO), in coordination with the Defence Attaché Office of the Australian Embassy in Vietnam, held an experience-sharing session on the topic of women, peace and security in the United Nations peacekeeping operations, both in in-person and online formats on September 28.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh arrived in Hanoi at noon on September 27, concluding his trip to attend the high-level week of the 78th United Nations General Assembly and hold bilateral activities in the US, as well as his official visit to Brazil.

VOV.VN - Deputy Foreign Minister Le Thi Thu Hang and her Bulgarian counterpart Tihomir Stoytchev discussed co-operation between the two foreign ministries, as well as international and regional issues of mutual concern, within the framework of the official visit to Bulgaria by National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

VOV.VN - Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, permanent representative of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and other international organisations in Geneva, attended a quarterly meeting of the ASEAN Committee in Geneva on September 23.

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien held a working session with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo in New York recently, on the occasion of a working trip to attend the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly and bilateral activities.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on September 20 signed the United Nations agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, making Vietnam one of the first countries to sign the international-legally binding instrument under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted separate receptions for Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Gerd Müller and Chief Programme Officer at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) Aurélia Nguyen in New York on September 20 (local time).

VOV.VN - Vietnam attaches importance to and supports the UN’s central role in the global administration system as a means of coping with some of the current major challenges facing the world.