Vietnam is ready to take on the role of non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC) from January 2020, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung.

Vietnam has been listed as one of the top five plastic polluters in the world, so eco-friendly technical solutions and the use of bio-degradable plastic products need urgent promotion.

The current international system is such that nothing could be done to compel Indonesia to deal with its forest fires, which is affecting the region, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said.

The United Nations investigators said on September 16 that nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a serious risk of violence, warning that the repatriation of a million of this community remains "impossible".

Three years ago, 193 member countries approved the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, pledging that no one will be left behind by 2030. Since then, Vietnam’s efforts to realise the agenda

Vietnam has a big opportunity to win a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council for the 2020-2021 term, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of Vietnam’s permanent mission to the UN, has said.

 Climate negotiators in Paris are drawing close to resolving one of the sticking points for a breakthrough emissions pact by favoring a five-year review period on promised greenhouse gas cuts,

 Pregnancy-related deaths have fallen by almost half in the past 25 years, according to a report by United Nations agencies published in The Lancet.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has had peacekeepers in the field with the United Nations participating in multinational humanitarian efforts in areas hit by civil war and political unrest to assist in restoring law

VietNamNet Bridge – United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is due to visit Vietnam from March 28-31.

 Authorities in the Philippines say the official death toll from typhoon Haiyan has risen to 2,360.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any US military strike on Syria that circumvents the United Nations would undermine the global body and risk unleashing a wave of terror.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has made great progress in recent months towards eliminating stigma and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the United Nations has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The United Nations and its partners have announced that tetanus has been wiped out in more than 30 countries, including Vietnam, which previously had high rates of the illness.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will pay an official visit to Russian Federation at the invitation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev from May 12-15

 The United Nations on Tuesday announced a new initiative to help eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the two neighboring nations that share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.