(VOVworld) – Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga insisted on Vietnam’s efforts in promoting human rights and implementing sustainable growth at a UN debate on human rights on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Permanent Representative of the Vietnamese mission to the UN Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga (Photo: VNA)

She said that as a member of the Human Rights Council and the Economic and Social Council, Vietnam will continue working with all partners, to further promote human rights across the world and advance the implementation of sustainable development goals.

The high-level discussion was the third and last session of a chain of thematic debates under the UN General Assembly President’s initiative.

The debate on human rights coincided with the 50^th founding anniversary of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the 30^th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights to Development.