As a responsible member of the UN Human Rights Council, Vietnam will continue working closely with other countries and partners aiming to promote and ensure human rights on a global scale, said Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Head of the Vietnam Mission to the UN.

Ambassador Nga made the statement on October 30 at a debate on the issue of promoting and ensuring human rights at the Social, Humanitarian Cultural Affairs Committee of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA-70).

The participants said international efforts have delivered important results but expressed their deep concern about conflicts, extreme violence and the globe’s biggest refugee crisis since from World War II.

These problems are depriving hundreds of millions of people of fundamental rights and basic needs such as health care, education, food and shelter— especially for women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. 

They called on the UN to continue its great efforts to help countries resolve challenges and better ensure rights of all people.

In a speech, Ambassador Nga suggested the international community should make every effort to safeguard peace, stability and sustainable development and thereby provide a firm foundation for promoting and guaranteeing human rights.

Ambassador Nga praised the role of the UN in augmenting cooperation and dialogue between countries in this regard.

The Vietnamese diplomat stressed the need to carry out the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda by dealing with important issues on human rights including the rights to development, giving priority to vulnerable groups to root out the problems of insecurity and conflicts, poverty, inequality, injustice and social exclusion.

On the occasion, Ambassador Nga briefed on Vietnam’s policies and outstanding achievements in ensuring human rights, emphasizing that the country has always attached high importance to cooperation and dialogue on the issue.

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