ASEAN Law Forum opens in VN
VGP - The Ministry of Justice on November 14 organized the ASEAN Law Forum under the theme “Some Hague Conventions on international justice concerning ASEAN”.
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Representatives from ASEAN countries, the Permanent Committee of the Hague Conference and the ASEAN Secretariat attended the event.
In his opening remarks, Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Khanh Ngoc said four ASEAN countries are members of the Hague Conference and ASEAN participated in 12 Hague conventions.
These commitments created the legal framework for cooperation on justice within ASEAN and between ASEAN member countries and others.
At the forum, delegates discussed the advantages and challenges in participating in and implementing the Hague conventions on international justice.
Viet Nam became a member of the Hague Conference in 2013, participated in the Hague Convention in 1993 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.
The country participated in The Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters in 2016.
Viet Nam intends to sign up to other conventions of the Hague Conference concerning law and justice.
They focused on the 1965 Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters and the 1970 Convention on Taking of Evidence Abroad on Civil or Commercial Matters.
By Vien Nhu
