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Vietnam
Index
Vietnam was admitted to the UN in September 1977 and gained
membership in some of the organization's specialized agencies,
such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, the
World Bank (see Glossary), the International Civil Aviation
Organization,
the
International Monetary Fund (see Glossary), the UN
Development Program, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization, the World Health Organization, and the World
Intellectual Property Organization. Hanoi also successfully
claimed the seat formerly occupied by South Vietnam in the
Asian
Development Bank (see Glossary). In the 1980s, it was a member of
the
Colombo Plan (see Glossary), the Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific,
INTELSAT (see Glossary), and
the Mekong Development Project Committee and actively
participated in the
Nonaligned Movement (see Glossary) and the
Group of 77 (see Glossary).
Data as of December 1987
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