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Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thao, the first Vietnamese to be elected to the International Law Commission and who is now serving his second term in the commission for the 2023-2027 tenure, has written an article looking back on 30 years' implementation of Vietnam Marine Strategy.
The article was published recently in Vietnam News Agency's Vietnam Law magazine. The following is the full text of the article.
Sustainable development of marine economy is an aspiration, a dream and goal of Vietnam's socio-economic development policies which suits the world's trend of development of blue marine economy. The Vietnam Marine Strategy for the 2007-20 period and the Strategy for sustainable development of marine economy for the 1993-2022 period implemented over the past 30 years have contributed to realizing such goal.
Strategic vision
Vietnam has been acutely aware of the importance of the seas to the economy, security and national defense and social development through its specific policy instruments enacted since the 1990s.
Resolution 03-NQ/TW issued in 1993 by the Party Central Committee's Political Bureau sets the goal of turning Vietnam into a strong marine economy. Then, Resolution 09-NQ/TW on the Vietnam Marine Strategy through 2020 (the Marine Strategy) was adopted in 2007, placing a focus on making Vietnam a strong marine economy through bringing into play all potentials from the seas. It is aimed that by 2020, contributions from the marine and coastal economy to the country's GDP would reach 53-55 percent and per-capita GDP in marine and coastal communities would double the country's average growth level.
Later, Resolution 36-NQ/TW of 2018 on the Strategy for sustainable development of marine economy through 2030, with a vision toward 2045 (the Strategy for sustainable development of marine economy), reasserts the goal of turning Vietnam into a country that is strong and rich from the seas on the basis of sustainable development, prosperity, safety and security, laying an emphasis on sustainable development of marine economy based on green growth. Indicators related to sea and ocean governance and coastal zone management are required to meet international standards so as to lift Vietnam at least into the group of upper-middle income countries in the world. Contributions of its 28 coastal provinces and cities are set to account for 65-70 percent...