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Activities12 May 2022

Workshop on the "Roadmap for Developing the Legal Framework for Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Vietnam"

Field: Dual-use goods and strategic trade Tiếng Việt

Unofficial translation from the Vietnamese original.

The adoption of Decree No. 81 on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, with a single National Focal Point, is an important milestone affirming that Vietnam is a responsible nation that proactively and actively implements United Nations Security Council resolutions, international treaties and multilateral arrangements on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Decree No. 81 sets out the organisational structure of the management bodies from the central to the local level, with clearly assigned roles and responsibilities. The National Focal Point and the focal units have detailed orientations and work plans for each phase and each year, in which particular importance is attached to international cooperation activities aimed at helping Vietnam to improve its national legal system and to build the capacity of the forces responsible for managing and carrying out the task of countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Building on the success of recent cooperation events, the Standing Office of the National Focal Point of Vietnam for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (Standing Office 81) and the Export Control and Related Border Security Program of the U.S. Department of State (EXBS Program) jointly organised the workshop "Roadmap for developing the legal framework for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Vietnam".

The workshop was attended by nearly 30 delegates from 10 ministries and sectors and was co-chaired by Senior Colonel Nguyen Dinh Hien, Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Chemical Corps and Deputy Head of Standing Office 81, and Dr Dawn, Regional Advisor of the Export Control and Related Border Security Program of the U.S. Department of State.

At the workshop, Vietnamese and U.S. experts presented and compared Vietnamese legal provisions on the control of dual-use goods with the provisions on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 and those of other countries, organisations and international dual-use export control regimes. On that basis, they proposed the development of a legal framework for strategic trade and dual-use goods management suited to Vietnam's socio-economic and defence and security conditions.

This was the opening workshop in a series of workshops on the roadmap for developing the legal framework for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Vietnam, with the aim of improving the legal system for countering the proliferation of WMD.

Dang Luu

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