The Vietnamese delegation attended the session announcing the results of membership in the United Nations Human Rights Council in October 2022. Photo: Vietnam Delegation to the United Nations

Vietnam has a stronger voice on key issues of the United Nations

In October 2022, with 145 out of 189 valid votes, Vietnam was elected for the second time to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2023-2025 term, after successfully assuming this role in the 2014-2016 term.

Vietnam is unanimously supported by members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as ASEAN's only candidate for this position. Vietnam is also the only Asian candidate of the Francophone Community.

The voting results show that Vietnam's active participation in activities of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Vietnam's strong commitments and efforts to promote and protect human rights have been recognized, trusted, and appreciated by the international community.

During the current term (2023-2025), as a member of the Human Rights Council, Vietnam has six outstanding initiatives at three regular meetings.

Vietnam has a stronger voice on key issues of the United Nations as well as of the international community.

These include implementing the 2030 Agenda on sustainable development, responding to climate change, migration, and protecting and promoting the rights of women, children, people with disabilities, minorities, migrants, especially in humanitarian crises or armed conflicts worldwide

The Vietnamese delegation attends a dialogue on Vietnam's national report under the UNHRC’s fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review mechanism in Geneva on May 7, 2024. Photo: VNA

According to Deputy Foreign Minister Do Hung Viet, "Vietnam's important motto is to promote dialogue and cooperation. Vietnam strengthens mutual understanding and respect, and ensures the implementation and promotion of human rights in the most comprehensive way, intending to leave no one behind in the development process.

Not only proposing initiatives, Vietnam also makes many efforts to implement recommendations of the Human Rights Council under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Of the 241 recommendations approved in cycle III, Vietnam has successfully implemented 209 recommendations and partially implemented 30 recommendations.

Vietnam is ready for dialogue on human rights

The Party and State of Vietnam have consistent policies in ensuring human rights. Vietnam is ready for open, frank, cooperative, and constructive dialogue with all countries, even on differences, to enhance mutual understanding, and share good experiences in ensuring human rights.

The approach to human rights issues in each country is always different. Therefore, the most important thing is dialogue to reduce differences and find similarities to jointly promote the protection of human rights. Through dialogue, Vietnam will better understand the human rights of other countries, and at the same time, countries will clearly understand Vietnam's human rights achievements.

Besides dialogue, Vietnam also welcomes and creates favorable conditions for international delegations to go on field trips to witness human rights achievements in the country.

In June 2023, Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Representative Delegation in Geneva, had a dialogue session with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights about the annual human rights situation report.

At this dialogue session, Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai affirmed that Vietnam is committed to working closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to resolve human rights issues.

Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai said that although Vietnam and other countries face many challenges in promoting and protecting human rights, Vietnam is still determined to ensure that its people fully enjoy human rights.

She also emphasized that Vietnam prioritizes focusing on strengthening the rule of law, transparency, security, and social safety as well as conducting necessary legal and economic reforms to support the recovery process after the pandemic.

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