Delegates try the product displayed at the Vietnamese Goods Week in Thailand (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Issues related to Overseas Vietnamese(OV) are an important part of the regular tasks of Vietnamese representativeagencies abroad, said many Vietnamese Ambassadors to foreign countries, who areattending the 30th Diplomatic Conference in Hanoi.
Vu Dang Dung, Ambassador to Poland, said the OV community inPoland is among the biggest communities of Vietnamese in Europe. Therefore, theVietnamese Embassy in the country has always supported the OV community’sactivities in preserving the traditional cultural values.
According to the Ambassador, one of the important tools to keepthe traditional culture is the teaching of the Vietnamese language to younger OVgenerations. The OV community in Poland has set up a Vietnamese language schoolin Warsaw. The community also hold various cultural exchange activities everyyear.
Dung said there are a large number of Vietnameseorganisations in Poland, but their leaders are mostly in their old age. Thequestion is how to get young people involved in those organisations, which is atask for both the OV community and the embassy, he said.
The view on the importance of OV affairs was shared by DoanXuan Hung, the Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany, a country with a170,000-strong Vietnamese community.
Hung said besides assisting the OV community in fostering theVietnamese cultural identity, the embassy also coordinates with the Foreign Ministryand the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism to organise cultural events. Prominentamong them were three exhibitions on Vietnam’s archaeological treasures since October2016, which attracted large numbers of visitors.
In addition, the embassy has held workshops and talks onVietnam’s situation, especially the struggle to protect national sovereignty atsea. It has arranged annual visits to Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagofor representatives of the OV community.
According to the ambassador, the OV community in Germany hasset up the Truong Sa Club to spread information on the homeland’s seas andislands.-VNA
