Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang - Member of the Politburo, President of the Academy, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council welcomed and worked with the US Deputy Secretary of State

LE BAO NGOC
Political Theory Journal

Attending the event were US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc E. Knapper; Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Allison Peters; officers and staff of the US Embassy in Vietnam; representatives of leaders of functional units and specialized research institutes under the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.

Welcoming the US Deputy Secretary of State and her colleagues to visit and work at the Academy, Prof., Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang sincerely thanked the US Department of State and Ms. Uzra Zeya for the thoughtful reception given to him and the delegation during the recent visit and work in the United States. Prof., Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang affirmed that this is an important opportunity for the two sides to continue to exchange, share, and deepen issues of mutual concern that were raised in the working program of the Vietnamese delegation in the United States from July 27 to August 6, 2024.

Expressing her pleasure to meet Prof., Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang again in Vietnam, the US Deputy Secretary of State Uzra Zeya emphasized that the United States always wishes to strongly promote bilateral cooperation with Vietnam within the framework of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership based on a foundation of mutual respect for each other’s political institutions, independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. As the US Deputy Secretary of State for civilian security, democracy and human rights, Ms. Uzra Zeya said that promoting and protecting human rights is one of the important pillars within the framework of the Vietnam - US Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Therefore, Deputy Secretary Uzra Zeya hopes that the two sides will continue to make strong efforts to realize the pillars of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, including promoting and protecting human rights, coordinating responses to global challenges such as human trafficking and other transnational crimes.

Sharing with Deputy Secretary of State Uzra Zeya, Prof., Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang affirmed that in the new context of unprecedented high level of political trust between the two countries after upgrading their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, continuing to build strategic trust on issues of security, ethnicity, religion, democracy, and human rights is one of the urgent requirements of the two countries in the current situation. He said that since 1945, in the Declaration of Independence on September 2, which gave birth to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, President Ho Chi Minh cited the values ​​of human rights in the Declaration of Independence of the United States in 1776 to affirm basic human rights and declare the rights of the Vietnamese people - as an independent nation in in the world; affirming that basic human rights and civil rights will be implemented in an independent Vietnam. This consistent viewpoint and policy has been implemented by the Party and the State of Vietnam throughout the leadership of the Vietnamese revolution.

At the meeting, he emphasized that the achievements of 40 years of innovation and socio-economic development in Vietnam have demonstrated a great step forward in ensuring civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights for all people. The 2013 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with the entirety of Chapter 2 dedicated to human rights, has continued to affirm and expand the connotation and content of human rights, completely consistent with international law and practice. Vietnam’s legal system and policies on human rights have been increasingly improved, strengthening mechanisms to effectively ensure human rights and have achieved great successes, with hundreds of Codes and laws being amended and newly promulgated. Since 2017, the Prime Minister has approved the Project on incorporating human rights content into the education program in the national education system for the period 2017 - 2025, in which the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics is assigned as the agency responsible for the content, monitoring the progress, and supervision of the Project’s implementation.

At the meeting, both sides exchanged and discussed cooperation activities between the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and the US partners, the results of the recent visit and work of Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang and his delegation to the US, the issue of civil security cooperation, democracy and human rights between Vietnam and the US, and direction for cooperation activities to expand and deepen key areas of cooperation between Vietnam and the US.