The event is co-hosted by the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) and the Norwegian and Somali governments. It seeks to further Somalia’s conflict prevention and reconciliation efforts, to achieve lasting stability in Somalia, said Michael Keating, the Special Representative for Somalia of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG). Somalia’s Minister of the Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation Abdi Mohamed Sabriye said his government is committed to achieving a lasting peace.
The 30 th ASEANAPOL (Association of Southeast Asian Nations Chiefs of Police) conference kicked off in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh on May 25. The conference, chaired by Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Sar Kheng, aims to strengthen cooperation and mutual assistance between the police forces of the ten ASEAN member countries and their partners. Nearly 300 senior police officers from ASEAN countries and their partner countries, including China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia and New Zealand, along with representatives of the ASEANAPOL Secretariat and the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) attended the event.…... [read more]
The conference highlights the importance of medium- and long-term solutions to improve the quality of workforces by introducing better and more suitable educational and training programmes. Participants in the event work on measures to build up a workforce that meet the market’s demand. Speaking at the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung stressed that developing human resources plays a crucial role in increasing productivity, boosting growth and improving people’s living standards. This is achieved via education and technical and vocational training, he said. “This is now an urgent issue as the labour market has been affected by the global…... [read more]
The 2009 Vietnam Property Exhibition & Conference (Propex Vietnam 2009) opened in Ho Chi Minh City on December 17. This is the first international property exhibition to be hosted by the HCM City Real Estate Association (HoREA) and the Nha Vui Architecture and Construction Joint Stock Company. The exhibition has attracted more than 70 domestic and overseas businesses in real estate and other sectors including architects, construction consultants and building materials suppliers. More than 250 real estate projects, mostly residential housing and apartments, are also on offer to individual members of the public. Propex Vietnam 2009 was selected as the…... [read more]
Vietnamese permanent representative to the UN Security Council Ambassador Le Luong Minh made the statement at a UNSC private debate on the situation in Somalia on July 23. Ambassador Minh expressed his concern over the security and humanitarian situation in Somalia, notably the brutal killing of the acting head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) office. “We call upon the TFG to urgently carry out an investigation and bring the killers to justice,” the Vietnamese diplomat said. The Vietnamese representative shared the same view with the UN Secretary General, saying that the Somali people have been facing continued drought, conflict…... [read more]
Iraq's deepening sectarian divide threatens to derail planned national peace talks before they even begin, as parties made their first boycott threats with less than a week to go. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government announced on Friday that a National Reconciliation Conference would begin on December 16, in a bid to stem a rising tide of murderous violence by Shiite and Sunni factions. The urgency of the talks was underlined Saturday when suspected Sunni extremists detonated a car bomb near a revered Shiite shrine in the central city of Karbala, killed five civilians and wounded 47 more. But the initial…... [read more]
