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Overseas Vietnamese in Mexico, Argentina, France welcome Tet

The embassies of Vietnam and overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in Mexico , Argentina and France have organised various activities to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.
The embassies of Vietnam and overseasVietnamese (OVs) in Mexico , Argentina and France have organisedvarious activities to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.

The staff of the Vietnamese embassy and representative agencies inMexico joined a number of Vietnamese students and doctors who arestudying and working in the Mexican capital paid a floral tribute toUncle Ho at his statue in Cuauhtemoc district.

Ambassador Pham Van Que briefed the participants of the achievementsthe Vietnamese representative agencies in Mexico obtained during in2009.

The ambassador informed a plan to build another statue of Uncle Ho inthe southern state of Guerrero, which is scheduled to be complete onthe 120 th birthday of late President Ho Chi Minh (May 19).

As part of the celebrations for the traditional Tet festival, theembassy of Vietnam in Argentina hosted a function on February 14,drawing the participation of hundreds of OVs and representatives fromVietnamese agencies in the country.

Ambassador Thai Van Lung spoke highly of the sentiments the OVs inArgentina have extended to the home country and affirmed that the Partyand State always consider the Vietnamese community abroad an integralpart of the nation.

Meanwhile, Vietnamese Ambassador to France Le Kinh Tai joined OVs inParis at a peace praying ceremony at the Truc Lam Monastery, andvisited monks and nuns at the Khuong Viet pagoda./.
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