Vietnam Prioritizes Stable Environment to Minimize Systemic Risks

Vietnam is actively working to establish a stable and trustworthy environment, aiming to significantly reduce systemic risks in its national governance. This strategic focus was highlighted at a national seminar on comprehensive and inclusive security, which emphasized its role in modern nation-building and defense.

Nguyen Thanh Nghi, head of the Central Policy and Strategy Committee, stated that the seminar coincides with the Central Committee's recent resolutions on reforming Vietnam's development model and national security strategy. He explained that modern national governance transcends traditional administrative management and risk control. Instead, it involves creating democratic, modern, smart, transparent, and effective systems centered on the people, guided by data, the rule of law, and decentralized authority with accountability.

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When security is placed in the right position in national governance, it becomes a strategic resource, a prerequisite for the country to develop quickly, sustainably, and inclusively.

Within this governance framework, comprehensive and inclusive security is not an afterthought but an integral part of all policies and development stages. The concept of 'security for development' signifies a shift from a reactive stance of 'protecting against threats' to a proactive approach of 'creating safe development spaces.' This involves actively fostering a stable environment, minimizing systemic risks, and transforming challenges into opportunities to enhance national self-reliance and resilience.

Nghi asserted that when security is appropriately positioned within national governance, it becomes a strategic resource and a prerequisite for rapid, sustainable, and inclusive national development. He added that building and defending the nation in the new era necessitates a comprehensive, profound, and innovative theoretical approach. The seminar underscored that security and development are two inseparable facets of a single national strategy, emphasizing that neither can be compromised for the other.

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Security and development are two sides of the same coin, inseparable, and cannot be traded off.