Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met Prof. Cees Veerman, advisor to the
Vietnamese Prime Minister on climate change, flood control and water
resource management, in The Hague on Sept. 29 during his official visit
to the Netherlands.
Vietnam considers climate change resilience
as the country’s vital issue and mobilises resources from all of society
for implementation of solutions, said PM Dung, adding that Vietnam is
very interested in the way the Netherlands has managed water resources
and flood control.
He thanked Prof. Cees Veerman and his
associates in helping Vietnam to build the Mekong Delta Master Plan
and asked the professor to continue coordinating and checking data and
to formulate solutions in the context of water resource security issues
facing Vietnam as a series of hydropower projects are being planned on
the Mekong River .
The PM also asked the professor and his
associates to propose the Government of the Netherlands support part
of the expense for building the plan in Vietnam .
Prof. Cees
Veerman said that the Dutch had sent experts to Vietnam to coordinate
research on coping with climate change in the Mekong Delta and a meeting
will be convened in Vietnam in November to gather reports to submit
to the Prime Minister later this year.
With soil similarity
between the Mekong Delta and the Netherlands , the European country
wants to share experience and transfer advanced technology and solutions
on water resource management to Vietnam , he said.
He
affirmed his intention to cooperate with relevant Vietnamese agencies to
build a vision for the sustainable development of the Mekong Delta
during the next 100 years.
Prof. Cees Veerman, former agriculture
minister of the Netherlands , is interested in assisting Vietnam
to deal with issues impacted by climate change. He accepted the
invitation to become head of the advisory group on climate change for
the Prime Minister.
Also the same day, PM Dung met with Speaker
of the House of Representatives Gerdi Verbeet and the Vice President of
Senate of the Netherlands. /.