The Vietnamese delegation to the 219th session of the UNESCO’s Government Board. (Photograph: VNA)

Paris (VNA) – Deputy Minister of International Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc
attended the 219th session of the UNESCO’s Government Board in Paris
on March 18 and 19, throughout which the Vietnamese consultant affirmed that Vietnam
at all times extremely evaluates multilateral cooperation and UNESCO’s position, and pledges to
proceed to make energetic and constructive contributions to the organisation’s frequent affairs.

Ngoc, who can be Chairman of the Vietnam Nationwide
Fee for UNESCO, held that the world is now at a tough time with many
intertwined challenges such because the local weather and environmental disaster, the
booming of synthetic intelligence (AI), growing inequality, violence and armed
conflicts, affecting all features of social life.

In that context, multilateralism and worldwide
cooperation based mostly on openness, equality, and mutual profit, in addition to UNESCO’s
mission to advertise peace by way of dialogue, mutual understanding, and its pioneering
position in strengthening international cooperation in training – coaching, tradition,
heritage, science – know-how, info – communication have gotten
necessary than ever, he burdened.

The Vietnamese consultant hailed the efforts of the
UNESCO Director-Normal and Secretariat in addition to the
organisation’s members in selling interdisciplinary and multi-sector approaches,
diversifying sources, and increasing the worldwide partnership community to additional
strengthen the position and effectiveness of the organisation.

Ngoc proposed UNESCO and its Government Board proceed
implementing initiatives, programmes and actions to grasp the Sustainable
Growth Aim (SDG) No. 4 on guaranteeing equitable high quality training and promote
lifelong studying alternatives for all, whereas strengthening the effectivity of
the International Community of Studying Cities, UNESCO Related Colleges Community and UNESCO
Artistic Cities Community.

Deputy Minister of International Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc addresses the 219th session of the UNESCO’s Government Board. (Photograph: VNA)

In the meantime, it’s essential to affiliate tradition and heritage
with sustainable improvement, promote open science and ethics in synthetic
intelligence, strengthen biodiversity conservation, water safety, ocean
governance and local weather change response, contribute to the UN Summit of the Future
(slated for September), and assist member international locations in implementing the SDGs,
he advised.

On this event, Ngoc had
working classes with UNESCO Director-Normal Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Deputy
Director-Normal Xing Qu, President of the UNESCO Government Board Vera Khoury
Lacoeuilhe, President of the UNESCO Normal Convention Simona-Mirela Miculescu,
UNESCO Assistant Director-Normal for Precedence Africa and Exterior Relations Anthony
Ohemeng-Boamah, and UNESCO Assistant Director-Normal for Pure Sciences Lida
Brito, in addition to heads of delegations from some member international locations to advertise
bilateral and multilateral cooperation.

Ngoc additionally labored with Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre Lazare Assomo, ICOMOS World Heritage Advisory and Monitoring Unit Director Regina Durighello to debate the enhancement of cooperation in
defending and selling the values of world heritages in Vietnam.

On the working classes, the UNESCO leaders and heads of
delegations of nations extremely valued the sound cooperation between Vietnam
and UNESCO and different member international locations, in addition to Vietnam’s necessary and
efficient contributions to the frequent affairs of the organisation in its capability as a member of 5
key administration mechanisms of the organisation.

They underlined that Vietnam is a mannequin for concord between
preservation and promotion of heritages in affiliation with selling tourism
improvement, financial development and folks’s livelihoods.

Ngoc expressed his hope that the UNESCO leaders and the UNESCO Secretariat present
consultancy and assist Vietnam’s new heritage dossiers corresponding to these of the
Yen Tu – Con Son – Kiep Bac panorama and relic complicated, Oc Eo – Ba The
archaeological website, Con Moong cave, and intangible cultural heritages corresponding to Competition
of Ba Chua Xu Goddess at Sam Mountain, Dong Ho folks portray artwork, and Lang Son
international geopark.

Vietnam additionally hopes to obtain assist in preserving and
selling the worth of UNESCO-recognised world heritage websites, together with the mission
to protect, restore and promote the worth of the Imperial Citadel of Thang
Lengthy – Hanoi, Ngoc mentioned.

The leaders of UNESCO and ICOMOS vowed to assist Vietnam in
constructing and selling heritage dossiers proposed by the Chairman of the Vietnam
Nationwide Fee for UNESCO.

Ngoc additionally took this event to ask and convey invites
to the UNESCO leaders to go to Vietnam for the celebrations of 10 years since Trang
An Panorama Advanced was recognised as a World Cultural and Pure Heritage Web site
(April), the Competition for Peace 2024 (July), and the eighth Asia
Pacific Geoparks Community Symposium (September)./.