Members of the Germany-Vietnam Association elected an 11-member executive board led by Rolf Schulze, former German Ambassador to Vietnam (Photo: VNA) Addressing the congress, Schulze pledged to exert efforts to promote the association’s activities in the time to come, thus contributing to fostering the relationship between Germany and Vietnam.
According to Siegfried Sommer, Schulze’s predecessor, the association was founded in 1991 with an aim to strengthen the friendship between Vietnam and Germany as well as the cooperation between the two countries.
He noted that in the recent two years, due to impacts of COVID-19, a number of activities of the associations have been postponed, but the “Vietnam Info” Newspaper has been published regularly to provide information on the political, economic and cultural situation in Vietnam as well as the situation of the bilateral relationships.
On behalf of the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany, Minister Counsellor Dang Chung Thuy lauded the role that the Germany-Vietnam Association has played in connecting people of the two nations. He hailed efforts and contributions of the association during the past 30 years to the development of the friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
According to Thuy, the governments and people of Vietnam and Germany have given each other great and valuable support. Particularly, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Germany has provided Vietnam with a large number of COVID-19 vaccine doses directly and through the COVAX Facility, making Germany the second largest vaccine provider of Vietnam among European countries.
At the congress, delegates adopted the revised Charter of the association and selected a new executive board with 11 members./.
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