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Training and Experience-Sharing Program in Indonesia on Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, and Counter-Proliferation Financing

From January 19 to 23, 2026, the Vietnamese delegation, comprising officials from the State Bank of Vietnam, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Supreme People’s Procuracy…

Training Course on Developing Exercises to Counter Terrorism involving Weapons of Mass Destruction

From January 20–22, 2026, within the framework of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the United States and the Philippines jointly organized a training course on developing exercises to respond to the threat of terrorism…

Open registries - a vulnerability exploited to evade targeted financial sanctions

Vessels engaged in evading maritime sanctions (including targeted financial sanctions) are predominantly registered with open registries: registries that impose few or no nationality requirements on vessel owners and…

Inspection of anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and counter-proliferation financing activities

From 5 to 16 December 2025, an interagency inspection team led by the State Bank of Vietnam inspected the anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and counter-proliferation financing activities of Kien Long…

Workshop on the decrees relating to the draft Law on Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

On 9 and 10 December 2025, in Hanoi, the Chemical Corps – Standing Office of the National Focal Point of Vietnam for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (Standing Office 81) chaired and, in…

Thirtieth Session of the Conference of the States Parties of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

The Thirtieth Session of the Conference of the States Parties (CSP-30) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) took place from 24 to 28 November 2025 in The Hague, the Netherlands. This is the…

Tabletop workshop on crisis communication: regional response to chemical and biological incidents

From 4 to 7 November 2025, a tabletop workshop on crisis communication: regional response to chemical and biological incidents, organised by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute…

Virtual currencies and the risk of proliferation financing

As virtual currencies (virtual assets – VAs) become increasingly widespread, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published two important reports in June 2025 highlighting the major risk of VAs being exploited for…

Decree No. 259/2025/ND-CP on strategic trade control – adding a counter-proliferation approach alongside the objective of enabling economic and trade development

The Government has recently promulgated Decree No. 259/2025/ND-CP of 10 October 2025 on strategic trade control, which governs the management of the export, temporary import for re-export, merchanting, transhipment and…

Violations of regulations on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction under Government Decree No. 218/2025/ND-CP on administrative sanctions in the fields of national defence and cryptography

The Government has promulgated Decree No. 218/2025/ND-CP of 5 August 2025 on administrative sanctions in the fields of national defence and cryptography, which took effect on the date of signature. The Decree introduces…

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incident response exercise

On 18 October, at the 88th Chemical Defence Brigade, the Chemical Corps – the Standing Office of Vietnam’s National Focal Point for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (Standing Office 81) – in…

Vietnamese delegation attends the 19th International Atomic Forum in the Russian Federation

From 23 to 26 September, a working delegation of the Ministry of National Defence comprising officers of the Chemical Corps and the Department of Military Science attended the 19th International Atomic Forum on the…