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National security, anti-terrorism focal points in new WTO era (24-03-2007) Senior Lt Gen Le The Tiem, deputy minister of Public Security, spoke with Nhan Dan (The People) about challenges facing law enforcement agencies after Viet Nam joined the WTO. What impact has Viet Nam's WTO membership made to your task of ensuring national security and social order? Development and sustainable development will be a foundation stone to ensure national security and social order. For us joining the WTO has provided us with some very favourable opportunities such as greater access to research and applications of advanced scientific methods and high-tech equipment. We have also been able to expand our scope of co-operation with partners, agencies and international organisations to deal with organised crime, especially international criminal syndicates. Staff and policemen must improve upon their knowledge and skills to cope with new crimes. What new crimes do the Ministry of Public Security expect to see entering Viet Nam when the country totally integrates into the world economy? During the integration process, international and regional issues in security will certainly affect Viet Nam. Crimes such as terrorism, women and children trafficking, high-tech crimes related to finance, securities, banking, intellectual properties, counterfeiting and money laundering will become more prevalent. We will also have to cope with opponents of the country who endeavour to take advantage of Viet Nam's opening policy to violate our sovereignty and independence. These people usually operate under a false premise of representing human rights and democracy groups. It is through this context that they work to cause division and political instability within the country. How has public security been preparing to cope with the upcoming challenges? Over the last 20 years, we have integrated and enhanced our co-operation with international and regional police. We have become a full member of Interpol and Aseanpol, signed bilateral agreements and judicial assistance commitments with 40 countries and exchanged experiences and co-operated with other countries in the fight against international crimes. The ministry has also built up comprehensive programmes and plans for the challenges we face We have been working very closely with all relevant security sectors to consult with Party committees at all levels to enhance their management capacity. We have also enhanced our work in economic security and have been working on public information areas. These initiatives will enable us to build a public security force which is both healthy and strong. We have also suggested to the Government that we revise and supplement the legal system to match Viet Nam's pledges in joining the WTO. As for criminal law and prosecution, we suggested that we should add new laws to the books, to aid us in fighting these new threats which have begun to spring up during our economic development. There needs to be an international standardised process put in place to ensure fairness and equality in all of our proceedings. In regards to administrative law, we have suggested that we revise legal documents in residential management, immigration and business management in some key areas that we believe will create favourable conditions for production and investment. Regarding international law, economic and trade law, we have consulted with the Government and National Assembly to join and approve international conventions and protocols including those on terrorism, intellectual property rights protection and the fight against corruption. If such proposals are approved soon, it will be helpful to keep social and economic stability, boosting the country's development and raising our role in both the region and the world. - VNS [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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