Vietnam will play a proactive role in resolving regional and global issues if it is given a new international standing as the non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in the 2008-2009 term, according to an article published on the U.S.’s Wall Street Journal September 24.
The world’s most prestigious newspaper has run the four-page special advertising section on Vietnam’s achievements in all aspects on the occasion Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in New York for the 62nd UN General Assembly’s annual meeting.
The trip to the UN headquarters of the government top leader, youngest Vietnamese PM since 1975, aims at a historic mission of launching Vietnam to the global stage, the article said.
The article entitled “Beginning of a new era for Vietnamese diplomacy” wrote that Vietnam is about to witness a great turning point as it is the only Asian candidacy for the non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, in which it will, together with the five members and nine other non permanent members, debate and decide important matters relating to world peace and security.
The Southeast Asian nation’s success in hunger eradication and poverty reduction, the article went on, has surprised the United Nations and other members pursuing the millennium goals.
It also expressed that Vietnam’s increasing status on the world arena is built on its dynamic economic growth over the past 20 years since Vietnam embarked upon renovation (doi moi) and global integration.
Thanks to a new external policy of openness, multi-lateralization and diversification, the communist country gained a high and stable annual economic growth of between 7 per cent and 8 per cent, particularly luring a large amount of foreign investment into the domestic market.
In order for more investment into the country, the Vietnamese PM, while in New York, will also hold talks with senior leaders and representatives of organizations on the sidelines of the UN key debate to boost the bilateral and multilateral cooperation on economy, trade and investment.
He yesterday met Presidents of Nicaragoa, Ecuado, Slovakia, Prime Minister of Italy, General Secretary of the Arab League and joined in banquets of respectively U.S. President Bush and UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon. (Local sources)
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