Visitors at Vietnam Internet Day 2020. Vietnam’s e-security index improved by 54 percent in 2021

Vietnam’s e-security index improved by 54 percent since last year but its internet became less affordable, the 2021 Digital Quality of Life Index (DQL) conducted by cybersecurity company Surfshark showed.

The third annual report has placed Vietnam 73rd among 110 countries, down 19 places compared to the previous year.

Covering 90 percent of the global population, the study evaluates countries based on five fundamental digital wellbeing pillars. Vietnam shows its best results in internet affordability (ranking 51st), but lags behind with internet quality (86th), e-government (75th), e-security (71st), and e-infrastructure (67th).

Vietnamese people have to work one minute 45 seconds to afford the cheapest mobile internet and two minutes 53 seconds to access the cheapest broadband internet. Despite a 62 percent year-on-year decrease, the country still has quite affordable internet access compared to the global average (10 minutes for 1GB of mobile internet).

E-security is also a bright spot in Vietnam’s performance picture as the country’s index improved by 54 percent since last year thanks to the improvement of data protection laws. However, the country still remains on the lower end of the list, coming in 71st place worldwide, due to a decline in cybersecurity.

In the all-around picture, six out of 10 countries with the highest scores are located in Europe, with Denmark topping the list for the second year in a row and is closely followed by the Republic of Korea./.

                                           Ethnic students prepare their own meals every day

The idea of Tu Thanh Phuong, Principal of the Phuong Do Secondary School in Ha Giang province, for a self-sustaining school has helped hundreds of poor ethnic students continue to fulfill their dream getting an education.

Phuong Do is a suburban secondary school about 4km from Ha Giang city’s centre, with 200 students, mainly ethnic minority children in highland communes living in extremely difficult conditions.

Due to dangerous terrains and lack of transportation, many students have to get up at 3 or 4am to walk to school.

Understanding the difficulties of these poor students, Phuong has built this self-sustaining model for about 60 of 200 students in the school. Accordingly, ethnic children who live far away and have difficult family circumstances can temporarily stay and study at school from Monday to Friday and return home at weekends.

Because the students are in difficult circumstances with limited money, in order to reduce the financial burden on their families, the school has guided them in self-catering.

At mealtimes, there is only one instructor and students have to cook, arrange food trays, wash dishes and do laundry themselves.

The children also participate in growing vegetables on the school campus and cleaning their own bedrooms.

"The ethnic students here are used to hard living conditions, so they adapt very quickly. Their cooking skills are even better than those of older children," Phuong said.

Phuong said that the reason for establishing this model comes from her love for students, her desire to reduce the burden on their parents and her hope that the children can be more independent in their future lives.

“I do not care about how many of them can participate in the provincial competition for excellent students, but I hope they can improve their life skills and be more independent in the future,” she said.

"Of course, if students can get good grades and be good at life skills at the same time, that is great.”

Difficulties remain

Each month to join hands with the school in paying for food and accommodation, each parent must contribute from 300,000 to 400,000 VND.

Thus, each child's daily meal costs only 18,000 VND divided among three meals, which barely meets the nutritional requirements, and usually consists of vegetables, tofu, peanuts, very little meat, and eggs.

Therefore, in addition to building the self-sustaining model, the school also asks for support from organisations, sponsors and sometimes even teachers themselves to ensure the students get meals.

According to Nguyen Thi Quynh, a teacher at the Phuong Do Secondary School, every month each teacher contributes 50,000 VND to the student support fund and takes turns on duty at the school to teach them life skills outside of school hours.

"Up to 30 percent of ethnic children boarding here cannot afford the cost of meals and may have to drop out of school,” Quynh said. “So, all of us teachers want to contribute something to help them continue to go to school.”

Quynh, although only assigned to teach English at this secondary school three times a week, understands the difficulties of the teachers and students here. She says that students now face a lot of obstacles in homeschooling due to the recent citywide lockdown.

"Ethnic families do not have computers and smartphones for their children to study online at home during the pandemic. So teachers have to make small homework books, then print them out and ask the village chiefs to deliver them to each student's house," she said.

“At the end of the week, we collect the homework books, mark them and hand out another book for the following week. Many students before returning home due to the pandemic told me that they did not want to leave school because going home meant they would have less food to eat. That made me sad for a long time.”

The idea for a self-sustaining school was upgraded by Phuong from the model of the semi-boarding schools sustaining local people, which appeared in Vietnam in the 1960s when times were even tougher.

Along with the change and development of the country, more and more parents voluntarily send their children to school, and the number of semi-boarding schools for ethnics is growing fast.

The local self-sustaining schools are diverse, based on the specific conditions of each place. Sometimes parents prepare lunch boxes for their children to bring to school, or contribute food and fuel or cook extra soup at the schools.

With smart, innovative models of schooling on the rise, life will hopefully get better for the children of the country’s ethnic minorities./.

                                                  Girls of an ethnic group in Vietnam

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on October 1 wrapped up the #KeepingGirlsinthePicture - "For a future picture with girls" campaign, which drew over 50 inspiring stories.

UNESCO launched the communication campaign on social networks in early August by collecting and spreading stories from the community about the importance of education in life.

The stories include those penned by people from ethnic minority groups of Vietnam like Tay, Thai, Ede and H’Mong, who are in different lines of work.

They featured girls who have surmounted difficulties and prejudice to not give up and realise their own dreams.

The campaign earned nearly 300,000 ‘reaches’ in Facebook, which is among the leading social media platforms in Vietnam.
According to UNESCO, the COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools and caused the largest disruption of education in history. More than 1.5 billion students are affected by the pandemic worldwide, of which more than 767 million are girls.

The organisation estimated that more than 11 million female students – from preschool to university – might not return to school last year.

The global campaign #KeepingGirlsinthePicture - "For a future picture with girls" aimed to ensure that girls' learning is not disrupted during school closures, promoting a safe environment for them when educational institutions reopen and calls for efforts to protect the progress made in their education.

In Vietnam, the campaign was implemented within the framework of the project "We are able (Achieving a better living and education)", which was implemented by UNESCO in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training and the National Assembly’s Committee for Ethnic Minorities Affairs, with the support of CJ Group of the Republic of Korea. It aimed to improve access to education of ethnic minority girls in Ha Giang, Ninh Thuan, and Soc Trang provinces./.

Maintenance of “stability at home, friendship abroad” is a strategic guiding principle for defending the country from afar of the Party. This content needs further study, grasp, and effective implementation aimed to contribute to firm protection of the Homeland in all situations.

On the basis of inheriting our ancestors’ experience in protecting the country from afar, especially the principle of “stability at home, friendship abroad” in the history of national construction and defence; conducting research into causes, laws, and methods to stage recent wars; and evaluating situations in the region and country, notably hostile forces’ plots to sow division within the Party, undermine people’s confidence in the Party’s organisations and authorities at all levels, destabilise political security, social order and safety, incite demonstrations and riots to overthow the legitimate governemnt, Viet Nam’s Defence Strategy has stressed the importance of keeping “stability at home, friendship abroad”, safeguarding the country from afar. This is a consistent standpoint, which demonstrates the Party’s strategic vision and sound leadership of national defence in the new situation.

Protection of the Homeland relates to not only defence of national territories but also maintenance of domestic security and political stability for sustainable development.  Protection of the Homeland means not only combat in wartime but also active defence to defeat hostile forces’ plots to conduct “peaceful evolution,” sabotage and proactive preparation in politics, economy, national defence, security, foreign relations, etc., right in peacetime. Therefore, the entire Party, people, military, and political system must continue to grasp and realise the following contents effectively.

First, strengthening of Party building, effectiveness and efficiency of state management of national defence. To promote Party’s building, effectiveness and efficiency of state management of national defence needs to adopt many measures to make party organisations pure and strong in terms of politics, ideology, morality, organisation, and cadre; step up inspection and oversight; firmly preserve unity and solidarity within the Party; resolutely prevent and repel degradation in political ideology, morality, lifestyle, manifestations of “self-evolution”, “self-transformation”, corruption, wastefulness, bureaucracy, “interest group,” etc., in order to create people’s confidence in the Party and State, which provides a firm foundation for bringing into full play the posture of “people’s hearts and minds” in national construction and defence. It is necessary to improve the Party’s mechanism for leading national defence and ability to map out guidelines, institutionalise and carry out resolutions on national defence of party committees at all levels; supplement and materialise functions, relationships, and leading role of the Central Military Commission in the implementation of defence missions; supplement functions, missions, and relationships between military region party committees and provincial, municipal party committees within their areas of responsibility. There is need to further reform mode, mechanism, and structure of leadership in order to enhance local military party committees’ leadership of building and operating provincial, municipal defence zones in both peacetime and wartime. The corps of cadres is to be cultivated to meet requirements of industrialisation, modernisation, and international integration. It is important to strengthen bodies and cadres in charge of national defence in ministries, branches, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies of the governemnt.

Second, closely and effectively combining economic, cultural, social development with strengthening national defence, security, and protection of the Homeland. This is a strategic guideline and vital content of keeping “stability at home,” safeguarding the Homeland from afar. To carry out this content requires attaching importance to combining economy, culture, and society with national defence and security and vice versa nationwide, especially in remote areas, border areas, at sea, and on islands; thoroughly overcoming shortcoming and weaknesses in combining economy with national defence and security in all areas, particularly in the strategic ones. The relationship between national construction and building must be materialised and realised effectively in the strategy for socio-economic development, Strategy to Safeguard the Homeland; in the fields of economy, culture, society, national defence, security, and diplomacy; in strategic regions and areas; and in each concrete mission, program, and plan. More effort should be put into carrying out the resolution of the Politburo on socio-economic development in border communes on land in association with strengthening national defence and security; connecting marine economy development with protection of sovereignty over seas and islands; associating economic growth with implementation of social progress and justice right in each development stage and policy with a view to ceaselessly improving people’s material, spiritual life, making people have confidence in and try their best to fortify national construction and defence. The defence industry and security industry are to be established and developed to both satisfy demands of national defence and contribute to socio-economic development.

Third, building a strong national defence and people’s security to meet requirements of safeguarding the Homeland in the new situation. Currently, it is an urgent need to operationalise synchronously and uniformly the building and development of a wealthy, powerful country in association with building a robust national defence and people’s security; enhance combat readiness and effective response to situations; care for building strong potential in terms of politics, spirits, economy, military, etc., to serve the needs of national construction and defence in peacetime and to be readily mobilised for countering wars. The People’s Army and People’s Public Security are built to become revolutionary, regular, highly skilled, and gradually modernised with some services, arms, and forces advancing straight to modernity. They are also requested to possess political steadfastness, comprehensive quality, and high combat capabilities, be absolutely faithful to the Homeland, Party, and people, and meet mission requirements in any situations. Efforts must be concentrated on building an adept, compact, strong People’s Army, capable of playing the core role in building the all-people national defence, safeguarding the Homeland, and defeating any aggressors. The Reserve is made powerful, with sufficient quantity, high political quality, right composition, and strict management and training. It is ready to be mobilised for supplementing the active force when required. It is necessary to tap into responsibility of local party committees and authorities, bodies, units, and enterprises for building the Militia and Self-Defence Force; renewing modes of organisation, training, and operation of the Militia and Self-Defence Force in association with protecting localities and firmly maintaining political security, social order, and safety at grassroots level. Special importance is attached to building the permanent Militia in border provinces, key areas, and Maritime Militia and Self-Defence Force; conducting research into organising the Militia Force in private, foreign-invested enterprises properly to meet requirements of preserving order and security in their areas of responsibility. The building of local armed forces must be connected with building comprehensively strong, robust, provincial, municipal defence zones, capable of combating independently within postures of military region defence zones and general defence posture of the whole country. There is need to continue building the all-people national defence posture in association with the people’s public security posture and speeding up developing economic – defence zones in key areas, border areas, at seas, and on islands, firmly protecting national borders.

Fourth, proactively, actively carrying out international integration and defence diplomacy, promoting national strength. International integration and defence diplomacy are important missions and strategies to safeguard the country from afar; prevent, push back, and defuse risks of conflicts and wars; preserve a stable, friendshipful environment for national development; combine national power with power of the times in order to create comprehensive strength to keep “stability at home, friendship abroad.” Therefore, there is need to promote cooperation with countries, especially those Viet Nam has established comprehensive partnership, strategic partnership, comprehensive strategic partnership, major powers, neighbouring countries, traditional friends; actively, proactively participate in multilateral defence cooperation and UN friendshipkeeping operation. Attention should be paid to strengthening organisations and developing a high-quality human resource for defence diplomacy; renewing contents and forms of cooperation, methods to hold conference, workshops, multilateral forums; improving effectiveness of propaganda and foreign information to generate high consensus in the whole Party, military, people, overseas Vietnamese communities, and international community about Viet Nam’s defence policy of friendship, self-defence, cooperation, and development. Also, scientific solutions must be worked out to minimise negative effects of international integration, resolutely struggle to defeat plots and activities, which exploit foreign relations to contact and infiltrate agents into our apparatus in order to conduct acts of sabotage and undermine our national interests. It is necessary to supplement and perfect coordination mechanisms between defence diplomacy and local, central foreign relations agencies; leverage foreign resources to serve socio-economic development and strengthening of national defence and security.

Grasp and effective implementation of keeping “stability at home, friendship abroad” and protection of the country from afar will directly contribute to defeating hostile forces’ plots of “peaceful evolution” and inciting “self-evolution” and “self-transformation”, preserving stability, creating position, strength, and overall power for preventing, repelling, defusing risks of conflicts and wars, firmly safeguarding the socialist Vietnamese Homeland in the new situation.

 Amidst the verdant hills and remote corners of Vietnam’s rural regions, the growth that has transformed the economy in this part of Southeast Asia in recent decades can be hard to see. Undernourishment among children still results in stunting – even in cities too where overweight/obesity is also on the rise.

UN data shows that almost 10% of the population in Vietnam live in poverty, and this is reflected in malnutrition rates and stunted growth. Smallholder farmers are usually considered the most at risk of poverty and food insecurity. But the outcome of Vietnam’s last COVID-19 lockdown was a staggering unemployment rate that might have pushed up to five million people into poverty – especially the many holding insecure jobs in the informal sector.

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There’s been no lack of examples of civil society reacting to the lockdown emergencies. Vietnamese businessman Hoang Tuan Anh, local media reported, even created a network of rice ATMs for the poor who suffered from reduced household incomes during the pandemic, distributing thousands of tonnes of rice. Other private initiatives have sprouted among poor neighborhoods.

But while some initiatives made headlines, the broad issues of malnutrition can only be addressed on a much larger scale.

Food security, according to the FAO, comes “when all people at all times have physical, social and economic access to food, which is safe and consumed in sufficient quantity and quality to meet their dietary needs and food preferences and is supported by an environment of adequate sanitation, health services, and care, allowing for a healthy and active life”.  Adequate food is thus not only dependent on quantity but also the quality of nutrients.

Zero Hunger is expected to result in healthier diets and better nutrition to tackle both under- and over-nutrition. Here informal traders in Hanoi sell food on the streets. Credit: Georgina Smith, CIAT

In 2015 the Vietnamese government launched a national action program for the “Zero Hunger Challenge” and in 2018 the Prime Minister signed Decision No. 712 / QD-TTg on Zero Hunger National Action Plan aimed at tackling inadequate nutrition with the aim of achieving one of the most crucial UN Sustainable Development Goals by the 2030 target. The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) together with the National Institute of Nutrition, Vietnam Academy of Agriculture Sciences, and other national and international partners have supported the government in this long-term effort, providing research-based solutions to harness biodiversity and transform agriculture, food systems for healthier diets, according to its mandate.

Working with Vietnam Academy of Agriculture Sciences and Zero Hunger Office – the Ministry of Agriculture, National Institute of Nutrition – the Ministry of Health and liaising with private and public actors, it has provided technological expertise to the Nutrition sensitive agriculture project under the Zero Hunger. After several years of research and the identification of issues and socio-demographic factors, Zero Hunger is set to continue its pilot stage and prepare its implementation stage. Expectations are high for a transition to healthier diets and better nutrition destined to tackle both under- and over-nutrition.

As a member of CGIAR – a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in food security research – the Alliance has played an active role in preparations for the UN Food Systems Summit. The focus of the Alliance will be to remind all representatives in the food industry and especially the large corporations and all stakeholders invited to the September 23 summit in New York that the best way to combat hunger is through diversity and sustainability. The key take-home message is that only increased conservation and agro-biodiversity can guarantee the kinds of food that are resilient to sudden change of climate, pandemics and a planet fit for life in general.

Malnutrition rates in Vietnam have decreased in recent years and waves of famine with strictly rationed food belong thankfully to the past. Yet the memories of what made lack of food ‘normal’ are still vivid. With climate patterns now disrupting the recent achievements and COVID-19 accelerating the crisis, there is increased political awareness that food systems have to undergo a dramatic overhaul.

Tuyen Huynh, country coordinator of CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, says the Mekong River – the lifeblood for so much agriculture and transport – is among the key eco-systems most at risk. The river system is increasingly unstable.

“When the climate changes so unpredictably from what it used to be and events become more extreme, then it becomes more difficult to say ‘we’ll cultivate this because the weather is like this’,” she explained. Salination of the water, she added, is increasingly affecting rice cultivation, as it impoverishes the quality of soil and nutrients.

Research on food systems profiles demonstrated that strategies to address food insecurity should be implemented in urban settings as well as rural areas. All across the country, and especially in mountainous areas and in winter, some meats and vegetables are difficult to obtain for the poor.

The Alliance has focused on the link between agriculture and nutrition models and has made sure that farmers are able to communicate their points of view by technically supporting the government in surveys and guidelines using the different languages spoken across the country.

Rather than pushing for simply increasing the production of food as such, governments, farmers, and producers have to think of how to provide more diversified and healthy food as well as improve the quality of nutrients in food. It’s a transformation that is expected as a result of embracing a local perspective of agricultural systems. The challenge in Vietnam is getting healthy foods to both urban and rural settings.

Chemical fertilizers and pesticides can exacerbate the weaknesses of food systems, promoting mono-cropping, lack of adaptability, and lack of response. And the all-important link between food, people, and their culture also risks being severed.

“Rice is the main staple in Vietnam. We mainly export rice and fruit—these are not available in some remote mountains in certain seasons so in winter there is often not enough food,” said Truong Mai, vice director of the National Institute of Nutrition. “Water and sanitation are also a very big issue in remote areas,” she added, underlining how food security cannot be tackled in isolation.

 

The 13th Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission on Thursday issued an announcement about its 7th session from September 28-30.

The commission said the Standing Board of the Party Committee of the Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG) in the 2015-2020 tenure violated working principles and regulations, showed a lack of responsibility and supervision, loosened leadership and directions, violated the Party's regulations, the State's laws and the Defence Ministry’s regulations on the use and management of finance, implementation of basic construction, purchase of technical materials and equipment, smuggling prevention and control, and maintenance of security, safety and order at sea.

The above violations caused serious consequences and significant losses of money and assets for the State, affected the performance of political tasks and prestige of the Party organisation and army, thus causing concern among officers and soldiers.

The commission decided to give a warning as a disciplinary measure against Lieut. Gen. Nguyễn Quang Đạm, former Vice Secretary of the Party Committee and former Commander of the VCG. It also decided to relieve Col. Nguyễn Văn Hưng, member of the Party Committee and Deputy Commander of the VCG from all Party positions.

The commission also suggested the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat consider imposing disciplinary measures against the Standing Board of the VCG’s Party Committee in the 2015-2020 tenure, and Vice Secretary of the VCG’s Party Committee and Commander Lieut. Gen. Nguyễn Văn Sơn; and former Secretary of the Party Committee and former Political Commissar of the VCG Lieut. Gen. Hoàng Văn Đồng, and several other individuals.

At the session, the commission considered the settlement of complaints about Party disciplines and decided on other important contents./.

 

The High-level People's Court in Da Nang on September 29 upheld an eight-year imprisonment sentence on a woman from Phu Yen province on the charge of “making, storing, distributing and disseminating information, documents and items aimed at sabotaging the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 1 of Article 117 in the 2015 Penal Code.

Tran Thi Tuyet Dieu, born 1988, was sentenced to eight years in prison on the charge in the first-instance trial by the People's Court of Phu Yen province.

At the appeal trial held publicly at the Phu Yen provincial court, the panel rejected all contents of Dieu's appeal.

According to the indictment of the Phu Yen People's Procuracy, from July 2011 to December 2017, Dieu wrote and stored 25 articles and 9 video clips with anti-state content.

She then posted those articles and video clips on her accounts on Facebook and Youtube.

Earlier from July 2011  to December 2017, Dieu also posted many articles on social media distorting the activities of law enforcement agencies and expressing support for Nguyen Viet Dung, who was sentenced to six years in jail for spreading anti-State propaganda./. 

 

 

The Freedom House has recently issued a report which again contains prejudiced and partial assessments on internet freedom in Vietnam.

Such assessments have no valid grounds and intentionally ignore the vivid reality of internet freedom in Vietnam, as well as achievements the country has recorded in human rights over the past years.

Vietnam’s efforts in ensuring and promoting human rights have been lauded by other countries and international organisations at various cycles of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

The council has also regarded Vietnam as a bright spot in human development, as reflected through the implementation of millennium development goals (MDGs) on poverty reduction, and social equality and progress.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the country has been praised for giving the top priority to public health.

According to the Human Development Report 2020 released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Vietnam has joined the ranks of countries with high human development in the world.

Between 1990 and 2019, the country’s Human Development Index (HDI) increased by almost 46 percent, which was among the highest HDI growth rates in the world, the report said.

Notably, Vietnam is one of the countries that have completed the MDGs ahead of schedule, and are working towards sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The country has made impressive progress in internet development. Statistics show about 70 percent of Vietnamese people use the internet, against the world’s average ratio of only 51.4 percent. Vietnam is among the 20 countries with the highest number of internet users.

Various social platforms have registered to operate in the country, with the most popular being Facebook, Zalo, Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok, to name just a few. Notably, Facebook has attracted up to over 65 million users in the country.

People can freely express their views and share information via the internet, especially websites and social networks. Many agencies and organisations in the political system, from the central to grassroots levels, have also utilised the internet and social networks to serve their operations, handle administrative procedures and maintain contact with residents.

They are the vivid evidences of the fact that the Vietnamese Party and State have always respected and protected the development right of each individual, as well as their rights to freedom of information and internet.

Therefore, the Freedom House’s allegation that Vietnam’s Law on Cyber Security is a tool to monitor internet use in the country is groundless.

The cyber security law is designed to make Vietnam’s cyber space healthy and protect the country’s sovereign right in the cyber space, in the context of surging trade frauds, fake news, distorted information or contents that are immoral or trigger social disturbances.

The freedom of internet and social networks in Vietnam has been exercised within the legal framework to ensure cyber security and prevent activities that take advantage of social networks to violate Vietnam’s laws, incite social unrest and create conditions for external forces to intervene into domestic matters.

Moreover, the law totally conforms to international law, specifically the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

Article 19 of the ICCPR stipulates that “Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference,” but the exercise of such rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. “It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary: (a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others; (b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.”

It is obvious that the Free House has deliberately ignored the ICCPR regulations, and the fact that not only Vietnam but also more than 180 other countries have issued a cyber security law or relevant rules to ensure national security.

Many countries like the US, Germany, France, the Republic of Korea and Singapore have adopted laws and clauses stipulating the strict handling of law violations in the cyber space.

The Freedom House has repeatedly made biased and prejudiced assessments on Vietnam’s internet freedom since the country issued the Law on Cyber Security. It mainly collects such information from reactionary organisations and groups that involve in activities to sabotage Vietnam.

The fabricated information aims to create false understanding on internet freedom and human rights in Vietnam, to defame the country and lower its prestige, position and role in the international arena.

Professor Vladimir Kolotov, head of the Ho Chi Minh Institute at St. Petersburg University in Russia, said the reports issued each year by Freedom House neither base on realities nor reflect the real situation of human rights in countries. It gives itself the right to accuse other countries of violating human rights and interfere into other countries’ internal affairs, he said.

It is clear that the Freedom House has no rights to intervene into internal affairs of countries. It must immediately put an end to such valueless reports./.