Hanoi (VNA) – China’s Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping has sentmessages of sympathies to Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trongand President Tran Dai Quang on the damage caused by typhoon Damrey in Vietnam.
The Chinese leader saidhe believes that under the leadership of the Party and State of Vietnam,storm-affected people would soon recover from the natural disaster consequencesand resume their normal life and production.
He highlighted thefriendly neighbourliness between Vietnam and China and mutual support between theirpeople, saying that China is willing to assist search and rescue operations inVietnam.
On this occasion, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also cabled a message ofsympathies to Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham BinhMinh.
Typhoon Damrey, the 12th storm in the East Seathis year, hit Vietnam’s south centralcoast on November 4.
Following downpours and floods had claimed 89 lives and left 18 missing and 174others injured in central and Central Highlands localities as of November 7night, according to the National Committee for Search and Rescue.-VNA
