Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that Vietnam always attaches importance to the traditional friendship and multifaceted cooperation between the country and Belarus at a reception for the new Belarus Ambassador to Vietnam, Uladzimir Baravikou, on October 11.

Vietnam has set the goals of protecting and promoting the rights of the child in all domains of social life and translated relevant provisions of those conventions into its domestic laws. The 2013 Constitution contains provisions to best protect rights and interests of under-18 persons in all aspects of social life, including criminal proceedings. As the disclosure of information pertaining to privacy of under-18 persons may cause serious physical and mental consequences to them, the 2015 Criminal Procedure Code, revised in 2017, (the Code) and relevant sub-law documents all provide the keeping of secrets of under-18 persons in criminal proceedings. Below the author would like to take some insights into those provisions before making recommendations to improve the criminal procedure law and relevant laws regarding this issue.

In the Vietnamese legal system, the civil law and the marriage and family law are two different law branches which share the same procedures for settlement of civil disputes and marriage and family-related disputes. In other words, marriage and family-related procedures are compliant with the civil procedure law.