OPENING REMARKS
Dr. Tran Cong Phan *Mr. Seto Takeshi, Director, United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention ofCrime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI),Mr. Shinichi Asazuma, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan to Viet Nam,Distinguished guests,
Ladies and gentlemen,
The Supreme People’s Procuracy (SPP) of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam closelycooperated with the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime andthe Treatment of Offenders to successfully co-organize the Eleventh Good Governance Seminarfor Southeast Asian Countries from 17 October to 19 October 2017 in Ha Noi. The Eleventh
Seminar focused on the theme of Best Practices in Anti-Corruption: A Decade of Institutionaland Practical Development in Southeast Asia.
Today, it is a great honour for the SPP of Viet Nam to keep cooperating with UNAFEI toco-host the Good Governance Seminar for Southeast Asian Countries for the second time, thetwelfth Seminar, in the glamorous city of Da Nang, one of the most livable cities in Viet Nam.
On this occasion, on behalf of the leadership of the SPP of Viet Nam, I would like to give thewarmest welcome to all of participants and the distinguished guests attending the Twelfth
Seminar; wishing all of your good health, happiness and success.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Corruption has become a global problem that gradually spoils the institutions of democracy
and rule of law of each country. The countermeasures against corruption have been tougher andmore effective in the Southeast Asian countries generally and in Viet Nam particularly, as it has
been done in other regions worldwide.
Through co-organizing the international and regional Seminars or Training courses,
UNAFEI and the judicial agencies of Japan have been the fellow-travellers with the Southeast
Asian countries in the fight against corruption over the past decade. The SPP of Viet Nam highly
appreciates and expresses the gratitude to UNAFEI and the judicial agencies of Japan for theirkind cooperation and their dedicated support.

*Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme People’s Procuracy of Viet Nam.

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Based on the accomplishment of the Eleventh Seminar organized in Ha Noi last year, at theTwelfth Seminar this year, we will focus our attention on the theme of “The Latest Regional
Trends in Corruption and Effective Countermeasures by Criminal Justice Authorities”. I hopethat, with the above-mentioned theme, our meaningful Seminar will be a legal science forum inthe region for law enforcement officers, legal experts and all participants to share information
about the latest trends of corruption in each country, to clarify the problems to be solved, tointroduce the best practices and effective countermeasures taken by criminal justice authorities
and to propose the direction and solutions for further effectively combating corruption crime.
Ladies and gentlemen,
To demonstrate the hardest determination and the strongest effort of the Party and State ofViet Nam devoted in the fight against corruption, the law enforcement agencies of Viet Nam
have detected, initiated, investigated, prosecuted and adjudicated a number of large-scalecorruption, and economic cases over the past years. These cases related to offenders who had
committed crime by using artifice with extremely serious degree or by transnationally using
high-tech. Corruption in Viet Nam has recently arisen in the fields of finance, banking, publicasset management, infrastructure-building investments, etc., Therefore, prevention and the fightagainst corruption are considered as the common responsibility of the whole political system andone of the most important, urgent and long-term tasks during the process of socio-economicdevelopment and building the State of the rule of law in Viet Nam.
Viet Nam has been putting a lot of effort into the improvement of legal framework on
prevention and the fight against corruption. The National Assembly (or the Parliament) of Viet
Nam adopted the Law on Prevention and Fight against Corruption (Revised) on 20 November
2018. It will officially come into effect on 1 July 2019. The revised Law stipulates in detail avariety of corruption acts, the prevention and detection of corruption in agencies, organizations
and units, and the responsibilities of the heads of agencies, organizations, and units in the workof prevention and fight against corruption.
With the hardest determination and the strongest effort put into the prevention and fightagainst corruption, the SPP of Viet Nam, the Central Authority of the Socialist Republic of VietNam in Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, is willing to further strengthen cooperation
with judicial agencies of ASEAN member states and Japan for the more effective prevention andfight against corruption and other types of crime in the coming time.
Based on the traditional friendship and cooperation among ASEAN member states andJapan, as well as the close ties among agencies participating in the Seminar and UNAFEI, I
firmly believe that the Twelfth Good Governance Seminar for Southeast Asian Countries willachieve success and obtain the designed objectives.
Finally, I would like to express my best wishes for the success of our Twelfth Good
Governance Seminar for Southeast Asian Countries. To Mr. Seto Takeshi, Director of UNAFEI
and all of you, I wish for your good health, happiness and successful careers.
Thank you very much.

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