Highlights of the week (from September 19th to September 25th)

Vietnam’s progress in ensuring people’s freedom of belief and religion

The draft Law on Religion and Belief is being discussed at the ongoing National Assembly Standing Committee’s third session which will run until September 22nd.
Decrees issued to realize seven Agreements

The Government has issued seven Decrees on Vietnam’s special preferential import tariffs to realize seven Agreements.
NAM members stress importance of peaceful East Sea issue settlement
Members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) called for the settlement of all sovereign and territorial disputes in the East Sea by peaceful means without using or threatening to use violence in the final document adopted by the 17th NAM Summit in Venezuela which concluded on September 18th.
French-Vietnamese friendship organizations supports PCA ruling on East Sea
The French-Vietnamese Friendship Association and organizations of the Vietnamese community, friendship organizations with Vietnam in France have issued a joint declaration in favour of the PCA ruling in The Hague in the Netherlands on the case of the Philippines on East Sea disputes.
Opportunities for overseas Vietnamese youth to visit Truong Sa archipelago
The authors of top prize-winning entries in the writing contest "Overseas Vietnamese youth and students with the task of protecting sovereignty over Vietnam’s sea and islands" will have the opportunity to visit Truong Sa archipelago.
Vietnam, Cambodia cooperate in repatriation of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers’ remains
The Steering Committee of Military Zone 9 of the Vietnam People’s Army and Cambodia’s Kandal provincial specialised committee, on September 20th signed a plan to cooperate in continued search and repatriation of the remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers in the 2016-2017 dry season.
Asian Beach Games opens in Da Nang
The 5th Asian Beach Games (ABG5) officially kicked off at Bien Dong (East Sea) Park in the central city of Da Nang on September 24th./.