(VOVWORLD) - Media outlets in the Czech Republic highlighted President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s remarks at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, as well as Vietnam’s role in promoting multilateral cooperation and international law to solve global challenges.
 President Nguyen Xuan Phuc addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly's 76th session in New York on September 22, 2021. (Photo: VNA) |
The halonoviny.cz newspaper that the Vietnamese leader put forth detailed proposals to step up multilateral cooperation, including promoting the role of the UN and international law in responding to urgent global challenges, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and issues relevant to peace and stability of each country, each region, and the world as a whole.
With regard to COVID-19 response, it applauded Vietnam’s proposal to enhance international cooperation, which should prioritise the supply of vaccines to countries with low vaccination rates and create conditions for developing nations to cooperate in vaccine production and supply chains.
The newspaper also applauded Vietnam’s appeal for stronger cooperation to minimise and deal with adverse impacts of climate change.
Meanwhile, parlamentnilisty.cz said President Phuc emphasised Vietnam’s policy on fostering multilateral cooperation and international law, with the UN at the centre, to deal with global challenges, including navigation security in the East Sea (known internationally as the South China Sea), thereby helping to sustain peace, stability, and development in the Indo-Pacific region and the world.
This viewpoint matches the common trend in the current multipolar world, requiring the international community’s cooperation and common efforts in response to global challenges, the newspaper wrote.
It stressed that the country showed strong determination to work with ASEAN to help maintain a world order based on international law and the UN Charter, and promote the international community’s awareness and common efforts in dealing the East Sea issue by peaceful means on the basis of international law and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), thus contributing to conflict prevention for the sake of regional and global peace, cooperation, and development.
The article said the East Sea is an important international shipping route, and that European countries support the viewpoint of boosting multilateral cooperation and respect for international law and UNCLOS in peacefully settling the East Sea issue.