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Press ReleaseUNICEF Executive Director arriving in Viet Nam
13 February 2001: Tomorrow the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Ms. Carol Bellamy, will be arriving in Viet Nam for a four-day visit. Ms. Bellamy is visiting Viet Nam to attend the International Vitamin A Consultative Group meeting (IVACG) being held in Hanoi this week. Ms. Bellamy will also be attending Viet Nam's National Conference on Children to review progress made by Viet Nam on children's issues over the last ten years, and to provide input as the nation's leaders formulate the country's next ten-year Plan of Action for children. During her visit Ms. Bellamy will meet with Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem, Minister and Chairperson of the Committee on the Care and Protection of Children and Viet Nam's Special Representative to the United Nations Special Session and Children Madame Tran Thi Thanh Thanh, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Dy Nien, and Vice-Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc. Ms. Bellamy plans to discuss the impressive progress Viet Nam has made in providing children with a primary education, access to safe drinking water, and immunisations over the last ten years. She will also discuss issues that continue to threaten the health and wellbeing of Vietnamese children, such as malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, sanitation, and traffic accidents. Ms. Bellamy will speak with the nation's leaders about the growing numbers of street children, sexually exploited children, child abuse victims and child labourers in Viet Nam, and will encourage the country's leaders to allocate more resources for these children, and for Ethnic Minority children and other poor children living across the land. * * * * * For further information, please contact: Mr. Damien Personnaz, Communication Officer, UNICEF Hanoi,
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