(VOVworld) – Vietnam values UNWOMEN’s support for its national development and gender equality promotion, said Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc at a meeting on Monday with Gonzalo Koncke Pizzorno, President of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNWOMEN).
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Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc (L) shakes hands with UNWOMEN President Gonzalo Koncke Pizzorno in Hanoi on Monday. |
Ngoc said Vietnam will continue working to fulfil its UN Millennium Development Goals and contribute to the UN’s post-2015 development agenda. Pizzorno said he was impressed by Vietnam’s achievements in ensuring gender equality and women’s empowerment through its National Strategy on Gender Equality for the 2011-2020 period and the National Programme on Gender Equality for the 2011-2015 period. He praised the “One UN” initiative as a successful example of Vietnam-UN co-operation.
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