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2022 Summer Export Control Exchange Programme for South-East Asia

Field: Dual-use goods and strategic trade Tiếng Việt

Unofficial translation from the Vietnamese original.

From 2 to 8 October 2022, the 2022 Summer Export Control Exchange Programme for South-East Asia took place in Washington, D.C., the United States.

 

Participants in the 2022 Summer Export Control Exchange Programme for South-East Asia in the United States

The 2022 Summer Export Control Exchange Programme for South-East Asia was organised by the National Nuclear Security Administration of the US Department of Energy to encourage and support South-East Asian countries in effectively implementing strategic trade control (STC) systems in accordance with international practice on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

The exchange programme was attended by experts from the US Department of Energy, the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Homeland Security, the counter-proliferation investigations office, the technology corporation IBM and the University at Albany, together with delegates from ministries and sectors of South-East Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. The Vietnamese delegation comprised officials of Standing Office 81 – Chemical Corps, the Vietnam Chemicals Agency/Ministry of Industry and Trade and the General Department of Vietnam Customs/Ministry of Finance.

An official of Standing Office 81 presenting at the Summer Export Control Exchange Programme for South-East Asia 2022 in the United States

At the exchange programme, US experts shared information on the US STC system, as well as on the approaches to trade control compliance adopted by corporations and large companies such as IBM. Also within the framework of the programme, delegates from South-East Asian countries presented reports on the implementation and legal framework of STC in their respective countries. For Vietnam, an official of Standing Office 81 presented the implementation of the Government’s Decree No. 81/2019/ND-CP of 11 November 2019 on countering the proliferation of WMD and the results achieved, and answered questions about Decree No. 81/2019/ND-CP. Following the presentation by Standing Office 81, the experts and delegates highly appreciated Vietnam’s efforts to improve the legal framework for countering the proliferation of WMD in general and STC in particular, in order to comply with the international treaties and multilateral agreements to which Vietnam is a party.

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