Director of the Consular Department Nguyen Minh Vu (right) and IOM Chief of Mission in Vietnam David Knight at the ceremony (Photo: Nguyen Hong)

At Tuesday’s launch ceremony in Hanoi, Director of the Consular Department Nguyen Minh Vu said promoting legal migration, preventing illegal migration, ensuring safe migration, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of migrants are a consistent policy of Vietnam. He added that Vietnam wants to enhance cooperation in migration management with other countries to share experience and information and build appropriate policies that serve national development during the integration process.

The Vietnam Migration Profile 2016 includes up-to-date data on Vietnam’s migration flows, analysis and assessment of migration data, and recommendations to improve migration management, fine-tune migration policies and laws, and boost cooperation between state agencies.