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Vietnam at the United Nations

Flag of Vietnam
Flag of Vietnam.svg by See File history below for details (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1977-09-20
ISO 3166-1
VN / VNM
Admitted by
A/RES/32/2

International organisations

Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.

OrganisationJoined
United Nations 1977-09-20

Service on principal organs

Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.

Economic and Social Council

2018 2017 2016 2000 1999 1998

Human Rights Council

2028 pending 2027 pending 2026 2025 2024 2023 2016 2015 2014

Security Council

2021 2020 2009 2008

Permanent representatives

3 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Le Luong Minh 2004-02-172011
Nguyễn Thành Châu 2000-03-012004
Le Hoai Trung -in office / not recorded

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to the United Nations, 866 United Nations Plaza, 4th Floor, Suite 428, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
Independence Day, 2 September
Accredited diplomats
20

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1979
Adult literacy rate 96.13 2022
CO2 emissions per capita 4.26606 2024
GDP 5.14697e+11 2025
GNI per capita 4,970 2025
Life expectancy at birth 74.736 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.8065 2018
Net official development assistance received 8.31188e+08 2023
Population 1.01599e+08 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 13 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 20,636 2025

World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.

General Debate statements

48 statements to the General Debate since 1978, 117,607 words in all. The longest was 1979, at 5,904 words, delivered by Phan Hien.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×11, Deputy Prime Minister ×7, President ×5, Prime Minister ×4. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Vietnam
Coat of arms. Emblem of Vietnam.svg by Bùi Trang Chước (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

75 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

TreatySignedRatified or acceded
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 6 Apr 1988 a
Vienna Convention on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations of a Universal Character - 26 Aug 1980 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 26 Aug 1980 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - 26 Aug 1980 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 8 Sep 1992 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 8 Sep 1992 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 10 May 1973 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 10 May 1973 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 9 Jun 1981 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 9 Jun 1981 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 28 Feb 1990
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 22 Oct 2007 5 Feb 2015
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 9 Jun 1982 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 24 Sep 1982 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 24 Sep 1982 a
Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity - 6 May 1983 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 9 Jun 1981 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 29 Jul 1980 17 Feb 1982
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 7 Nov 2013 5 Feb 2015
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 17 May 1950 A
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 17 May 1950 A
Agreement on the establishment of the International Vaccine Institute 28 Oct 1996 3 Jun 1997 AA
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 3 Sep 2003 17 Dec 2004
Protocol Bringing under International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946 - 11 Aug 1950 d
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 - 14 Sep 1970 a
Convention on psychotropic substances - 4 Nov 1997 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 4 Nov 1997 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 18 Dec 2015 a
Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre - 9 Sep 1982 s
Agreement to establish the South Centre 25 Nov 1994 2 Jun 1995 A
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 28 Jan 1966 22 Sep 1966
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development - 13 Dec 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 16 Jun 1981 6 May 1983 AA
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring - 31 Jan 1956 a
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles - 31 Jan 1956 a
Agreement concerning the adoption of harmonized technical United Nations Regulations for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these United Nations Regulations - 26 Jul 2023 a
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network 26 Apr 2004 3 Aug 2004 AA
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network (with annexes) 10 Nov 2006 30 Sep 2009 AA
Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports 7 Nov 2013 29 Oct 2014 AA
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 12 Jun 1984 A
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 1 Jun 1952 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 1 Dec 2006 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 6 Apr 2005 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 17 Sep 1984 15 Apr 1993 A
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 - 16 Nov 2000 a
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 - 10 Apr 2014 a
Agreement establishing the Asian Coconut Community - 13 Apr 2004 a
Agreement establishing the International Pepper Community - 21 Mar 2005 a
Agreement establishing the International Pepper Community - 21 Mar 2005 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism - 25 Sep 2002 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 8 Jun 2012
United Nations Convention against Corruption 10 Dec 2003 19 Aug 2009
United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes 25 Oct 2025 17 Apr 2026
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 9 Jan 2014 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 2 May 2002 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - 9 Jan 2014 a
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction 20 Sep 2023 9 Jun 2025 AA
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks - 18 Dec 2018 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 12 Sep 1995 a
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite - 12 Oct 2005 a
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity - 11 Sep 1979 a
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development 8 Sep 1978 23 Feb 1981 A
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 26 Aug 1980 a
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III) 10 Apr 1981 -
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 30 Sep 1998
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 10 Mar 2006
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 22 Sep 2017 17 May 2018
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa - 25 Aug 1998 a
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - 19 May 2014 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade - 7 May 2007 a
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 23 May 2001 22 Jul 2002
Minamata Convention on Mercury 11 Oct 2013 23 Jun 2017 AA
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 26 Jan 1994 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 13 Mar 1995 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 28 May 1993 16 Nov 1994

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - yes
A/RES/80/296 - yes
A/RES/80/293 B - yes
A/RES/80/294 - yes
A/RES/80/293 A - yes
A/RES/80/297 - yes
A/RES/80/299 - yes

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2VN wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901507+00:00
iso3VNM wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901517+00:00
m49704 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134342+00:00
nameVietnam wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901487+00:00
un_admission_date1977-09-20 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901497+00:00
unsd_nameViet Nam un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134353+00:00

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