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Vietnam takes part in NAM efforts for women advancement
New York (VNA) - Promoting the advancement of women and gender equality has always been a fundamental policy of the Vietnamese Government which considers it as an important tool to ensure justice and sustainable development, said Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh.
Minh, who is also Head of the Vietnamese delegation at the Second Ministerial
Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement on the Advancement of Women toward the
Achievement of Millennium Development Goals, reported on Vietnam 's actions
since the first conference in Putrajaya.
He said gender quality was incorporated in the national plan for economic and
social development for the period 2006-2010 and a plan of action for the
advancement of Vietnamese women for the period 2006-2010 was formulated. The Union
of Women has announced six separate major programmes of action aimed at renewing
the Union's activities in order to protect better the interests of women in line
with the overall objective of the Union, that of achieving gender equality,
development and peace. The transfer in 2008 of the function of managing the work
relating to gender equality issues to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social
Affairs with permanent staff and with a woman Minister, the steps to strengthen
the National Committee for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women and the formation
of the Group of Women Deputies in the National Assembly were aimed at ensuring
efficiency of women-related work nationwide.
Minh announced that those specific measures have brought about specific results.
Women account for 25.7 percent of the membership of the incumbent National
Assembly. A third woman was elected Vice-President of the country and as has
always been over the past decades, the new Government consists of women ministers.
Significant progress has been made in ensuring equal access to education for
women, at both national and local levels.
The Vietnamese diplomat noted that at half-way in implementation of the United
Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while in every aspect, positive
results have been recorded in many NAM member countries, the MDGs have been
implemented unevenly and even in countries with encouraging results, not all of
the 8 MDGs have met half-way commitments. "All these demand that our Movement
further enhances our efforts to ensure that we are able to achieve the MDGs by the
year 2015," he said.
He called on NAM member countries to promote cooperation and mutual support and
assistance, especially through development projects and training programs benefiting
women, and strengthen the voice of NAM at the United Nations and other
international organisations. " Viet Nam looks forward to doing its part in these
endeavours," he said.
The second NAM Ministerial Conference on the advancement of women took placed in
Guatemala from Jan. 21-24. The conference adopted the Guatemala Declaration and
Programme of Action, affirming the will and the determination of the Movement to
act, to cooperate and to advance together in pursuing the common noble goal of
protecting and promoting the interests of the better half of the world
population.-Enditem
Minh, who is also Head of the Vietnamese delegation at the Second Ministerial
Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement on the Advancement of Women toward the
Achievement of Millennium Development Goals, reported on Vietnam 's actions
since the first conference in Putrajaya.
He said gender quality was incorporated in the national plan for economic and
social development for the period 2006-2010 and a plan of action for the
advancement of Vietnamese women for the period 2006-2010 was formulated. The Union
of Women has announced six separate major programmes of action aimed at renewing
the Union's activities in order to protect better the interests of women in line
with the overall objective of the Union, that of achieving gender equality,
development and peace. The transfer in 2008 of the function of managing the work
relating to gender equality issues to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social
Affairs with permanent staff and with a woman Minister, the steps to strengthen
the National Committee for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women and the formation
of the Group of Women Deputies in the National Assembly were aimed at ensuring
efficiency of women-related work nationwide.
Minh announced that those specific measures have brought about specific results.
Women account for 25.7 percent of the membership of the incumbent National
Assembly. A third woman was elected Vice-President of the country and as has
always been over the past decades, the new Government consists of women ministers.
Significant progress has been made in ensuring equal access to education for
women, at both national and local levels.
The Vietnamese diplomat noted that at half-way in implementation of the United
Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while in every aspect, positive
results have been recorded in many NAM member countries, the MDGs have been
implemented unevenly and even in countries with encouraging results, not all of
the 8 MDGs have met half-way commitments. "All these demand that our Movement
further enhances our efforts to ensure that we are able to achieve the MDGs by the
year 2015," he said.
He called on NAM member countries to promote cooperation and mutual support and
assistance, especially through development projects and training programs benefiting
women, and strengthen the voice of NAM at the United Nations and other
international organisations. " Viet Nam looks forward to doing its part in these
endeavours," he said.
The second NAM Ministerial Conference on the advancement of women took placed in
Guatemala from Jan. 21-24. The conference adopted the Guatemala Declaration and
Programme of Action, affirming the will and the determination of the Movement to
act, to cooperate and to advance together in pursuing the common noble goal of
protecting and promoting the interests of the better half of the world
population.-Enditem
