Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs

Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs

Bộ Dân tộc và Tôn giáo (Vietnamese)
Agency overview
Formed	3 May 1946
Preceding Agency	Department of Ethnic Minority (1946–1955) Central Sub-Committee of Ethnic Minority (1955–1959) Committee of Ethnic Minority (1959–1987) Central Commission of Ethnic Minority of the Communist Party (1979–1992), Office of Mountain Region and Ethnic Minority (1990–1992) Committee for Ethnic Minority and Mountain Region (1992–2002) Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (2002–present)
Type	Ministry-level Agency
Jurisdiction	Government of Vietnam
Headquarters	39 Doi Can Street, Lieu Giai Ward, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
Annual budget	319.630 millions VND (2018)
Agency executives	Hầu A Lềnh, Chief of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Deputy Chiefs of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Nông Quốc Tuấn Phan Văn Hùng Lê Sơn Hải Hoàng Thị Hạnh Y Thông
Website	ubdt.gov.vn

The Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs (Vietnamese: Bộ Dân tộc và Tôn giáo), formerly Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA; Vietnamese: Uỷ ban Dân tộc, lit. 'Ethnic Committee'), is a government ministry in Vietnam that exercises the functions of state management on ethnic minority affairs nationwide. The committee is headed by a chief. The current Chief of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs is Hầu A Lềnh.