Hanoi, Nov. 26 -- Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long hosted a reception in Hanoi on November 26 for June Kunugi, UNICEF Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific, who is visiting Vietnam to attend the celebration of 50 years of Vietnam - UNICEF cooperation and the 35th anniversary of the country's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Welcoming the delegation, Long affirmed that Vietnam and UNICEF, along with other UN bodies, enjoy a long-standing and close partnership. UNICEF was the first international organisation to officially establish relations with Vietnam - in 1975, shortly after the national reunification. Vietnam was the second country in the world and the first in Asia to ratify the Convention on ...