Replying to a reporter’s question about the US Department of State’s release of the report, Hang highlighted the Vietnamese Government’s policy of promoting legal, safe, and orderly migration and also resolutely preventing and fighting illegal migration, arrangement of illegal migration, and human trafficking.

She said that in the recent past, Vietnam has continued to strongly implement the human trafficking prevention and control programme for 2021 - 2025, with orientation towards 2030, and obtained many important results such as boosting the effectiveness of inter-sectoral coordination, improving the statistical work, intensifying the investigation and settlement of the human trafficking crime, and increasing communications to raise public awareness.

Vietnam has been exerting efforts to reach the targets of the Global Compact for Migration under the plan issued by the Prime Minister on March 20, 2020 so as to consolidate a transparent migration environment, protect the rights and legitimate interests of migrants, and prevent risks of human trafficking in international migration activities.

“Vietnam recognises the US side’s more positive assessment made in the 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report by the US Department of State”, the spokeswoman went on.

“In that spirit, we hope the two sides will continue cooperating closely in the time ahead so that the US side has more objective, precise, comprehensive assessment of the situation and substantive efforts of Vietnam. We are also ready to discuss concrete cooperation issues with the US side and relevant parties to together effectively carry out human trafficking prevention and control,” she added./. VNA