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Deputy Prime Minister Phan Van Giang has recently signed Decision 27/2026/QD-TTg, providing a legal framework for receiving and coordinating foreign relief in emergency situations and for deploying Vietnamese forces and vehicles overseas for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations.
Regarding the receipt and coordination of foreign relief when Vietnam declares a state of emergency, the decision defines aid providers as foreign organisations and individuals acting in good faith and respecting Vietnam’s law. These include international organisations, intergovernmental organisations, foreign diplomatic missions in Vietnam, foreign non-governmental organisations, not-for-profit organisations, social funds, private funds, foreign individuals, and overseas Vietnamese.
On the Vietnamese side, aid recipients are organisations established under Vietnam’s law whose functions, tasks and operations are consistent with objectives and contents of the aid. They include ministries, ministerial-level agencies, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees at central and provincial levels, provincial-level People’s Committees, and other related agencies, organisations and individuals. Aid beneficiaries include agencies, organisations, households, individuals and enterprises affected by emergency circumstances.
The decision also regulates the deployment of Vietnamese agencies, organisations, individuals, forces and vehicles abroad to take part in disaster response, humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief activities. The Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Public Security are designated as the standing forces for these overseas missions.
Under the decision, Vietnamese forces deployed abroad will receive training in foreign languages, professional skills, and related humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations, with training and drills conducted at least once a year. Members of these forces must have good moral qualities, be physically fit to work in harsh environments, and generally be under 45 years of age, except commanders or members of task forces decided by competent authorities.
The deployment of Vietnamese forces and vehicles abroad will be organised based on Vietnam’s diplomatic relations and assistance needs of the disaster-affected country.
For missions involving both the Army and Public Security forces, the Ministry of National Defence will coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security and related agencies before submitting the proposal to the Standing Body of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat for consideration and decision.
For missions involving only the Public Security forces, without forces or vehicles under the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Public Security will coordinate with related central agencies before submitting the proposal to the Standing Body of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat.- (VLLF)
