Environmental issues according to multilateral agreements and practice in Vietnam

Abstract

The Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) recognized the aspect of adjusting environmental policies related to trade in the preamble of this Agreement "...with a view to raising standards of living, ensuring full employment and a large and steadily growing volume of real income and effective demand, and expanding the production of and trade in goods and services, while allowing for the optimal use of the world's resources in accordance with the objective of sustainable development, seeking both to protect and preserve the environment... in a manner consistent with their respective needs and concerns at different levels of economic development”. Vietnam, as an official member of the WTO and has participated in other multilateral agreements, ought to respect and implement in accordance with the country's actual socio-economic conditions.