Viet Nam wins election to UNESCO Executive Board for 2021-2025 term
Viet Nam has become a member of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for 2021-25, with 163 votes out of the 178 members, or 92 percent, during the 41st session of the General Conference of UNESCO held on November 17 in Paris, France.
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| The result of the election. (Photo: VNA) |
This is the fifth time Viet Nam has been elected to be a member of the UNESCO Executive Board.
Secretary-General of the Viet Nam National Commission for UNESCO Mai Phan Dung, who led the Vietnamese delegation attending the 41st session, said Viet Nam becoming a member of the Executive Board this time demonstrates the country’s rising position and prestige at the international arena and recognition of the international community for its contributions to the relations with UNESCO.
This is the result of Viet Nam’s policy of multilateralism, diversification and comprehensive and extensive international integration, as well as the outcome of the concerted implementation of the election campaign in the past years, he continued.
Viet Nam’s membership in the UNESCO Executive Board offers good opportunities for Viet Nam to show ‘dual responsibility in protecting national interests, capitalising on UNESCO’s ideas and initiatives to serve the national construction and development in a sustainable, concerted and comprehensive manner.
At the same time, Viet Nam will have chances to contribute to international issues that UNESCO is paying attention to.
Dung said that in this tenure, Viet Nam will actively engage in major programmes and orientations of UNESCO across five expertise, together with affirming the role and prestige of Viet Nam at UNESCO in particular and the international arena at large, thereby successfully realising the Resolution adopted at the 13th National Party Congress, the Politburo’s Resolution No.22-NQ/TW on international integration and Directive No. 25-CT/TW on promoting and enhancing the role of multilateral diplomacy until 2030 issued by the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat.
Viet Nam was a member of the UNESCO Executive Board for the 1978-1983, 2001-2005, 2009-2013 and 2015-2019 terms.
The Executive Board consists of 58 member states with a four-year term of office. It ensures the overall management of UNESCO and prepares the work of the General Conference and sees that its decisions are properly carried out.
(Source: VNA)
