Topic: 2024-Private Military Contractors
Country: Viet Nam
Delegate Name: Devansh Agrawal
PMCs, or Private Military Contractors, have raised huge concerns and ethical challenges for modern warfare. PMCs have been playing an important role in warfare by providing military support with help ranging from logistics to direct combat services. They have been used extensively since the Cold War era in areas like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Africa. While PMCs do help with the military, they are unregulated, don’t follow the same restrictions, and are sometimes profit-driven. PMCs do raise concerns about human rights violations, threats to national sovereignty, and lack of accountability in case of incidents with many advocating for proper international control over the use and meaning of using them as a military resource.
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam recognizes the role of PMCs in national security and the threats they pose to sovereignty. As a nation that believes in sovereignty and non-interference, Vietnam is advocating for the establishment of a stronger global standard for PMC that ensures that international concerns are remembered and accordingly implemented. Vietnam believes in emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability to ensure that countries use PMCs responsibly and ethically. As a military resource used by other nations, Vietnam has no issue with its utilization, provided that a proper framework is established that can prevent human rights violations and complete oversight. Vietnam emphasizes the importance of ethical and transparent use to guarantee that further ambiguous use of PMCs as a loophole is avoided.
As a member of the United Nations, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam wishes the organization to set regulations regarding PMCs. Vietnam hopes for a framework that can set international regulations for PMCs that report and hold host countries accountable for all their actions while minimizing the reduction of national sovereignty. Additionally, Vietnam sees that the incorporation of PMCs as a sect of the host country’s military can avoid legal ambiguity and allow for proper accountability alongside national rules and regulations that are currently in place.
