Topic: Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Country: Vietnam
Delegate Name: Nicholas Wickerham
School: Royal Oak High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Vietnam position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
Vietnam does not recognize people as indigenous as they are merely an ethnicity. As a socialist republic it violates our principles to award ethnicities special privileges and rights such as those in western nations. We believe in assimilating these cultures into our own avoiding the tensions that can be presented through having these rights being awarded to them. Vietnam believes that the final decision must be made by the individual country. We have had much western interference and will not tolerate western aggression in our country. This plays not in the hands of this comottie but our own governments. By allowing outside outside influence to control our country's designs our country will be the one that suffers the most. We are providing these ethnic groups known as the Khmer the basic necessities to live just as any other vietnamese citizen is awarded. We will never give groups an advantage due to their ethnic background or geographical location. We will only support a resolution that allows for each country to preserve their sovereignty to the fullest extent by making this decision up to individual governments with no western interference in our countries or our practices as that will lead to conflict.
