New York, Sept. 20 -- With its journey of transformation-from war to peace and from underdevelopment to prosperity-and its experience in combining economic growth with social progress and environmental protection, Vietnam can offer valuable lessons for efforts to foster trust and enhance the effectiveness of multilateralism, said Kanni Wignaraja, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

During an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), Wignaraja, who has over 30 years of experience within the UN system and previously worked in Vietnam during the early 2000s, considers the country's development story, spanning domestic transformations to its opening-u...