PM lauds efforts of friendship society to boost VN-Australia ties
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highly spoke of efforts by the Australia – Vietnam Friendship Society (AVFS) to promote friendship and mutual understanding between people of Vietnam and Australia while talking to AVFS President Kim Sampson on March 15.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) received President of the Australia-Vietnam Friendship Society Kim Sampson on March 15 (Photo: VNA)Canberra (VNA) – Prime Minister
Nguyen Xuan Phuc highly spoke of efforts by the Australia – Vietnam Friendship
Society (AVFS) to promote friendship and mutual understanding between people of
Vietnam and Australia while talking to AVFS President Kim Sampson on March 15.
PM Phuc met with Kim in Canberra on the second day of his official visit to Australia from March 14-18.
He informed Kim the results of his talks with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, especially the official establishment of the Strategic Partnership between the two countries.
He urged the AVFS to further step up cooperation programmes and projects in economics, trade, investment, culture, sports, healthcare, and people-to-people exchange between Vietnam and Australia to match the new level of ties.
Welcoming the PM, Kim said the society has carried out many projects to support Vietnam, particularly the settlement of Agent Orange/Dioxin consequences, and to enhance exchanges in education and healthcare. The society’s members, who work in different fields, have played an active part to aid its effort to develop the relations and make the bilateral cooperation more effective, he added.
The members then updated the PM on the society’s new projects, most notably the young doctors’ exchange programme between the two countries that seeks to help Vietnam improve healthcare service quality. It also plans to develop projects to support disadvantaged people and people with disabilities and to promote both sides’ cuisine cultures.
PM Phuc, for his part, vowed that the Government of Vietnam will support and provide all possible conditions for the society to implement the projects in the country.
The AVFS grew out of the opposition to the war in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s, marked notably by the moratoriums and an escalating anti-war movement. After some decades of change, the organization was re-launched on August 12, 2014. Its main focus is to support for the Children’s Fund in Vietnam where a lack of educational opportunity and especially malnutrition still exist and the effects of Agent Orange still linger.-VNA
PM Phuc met with Kim in Canberra on the second day of his official visit to Australia from March 14-18.
He informed Kim the results of his talks with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, especially the official establishment of the Strategic Partnership between the two countries.
He urged the AVFS to further step up cooperation programmes and projects in economics, trade, investment, culture, sports, healthcare, and people-to-people exchange between Vietnam and Australia to match the new level of ties.
Welcoming the PM, Kim said the society has carried out many projects to support Vietnam, particularly the settlement of Agent Orange/Dioxin consequences, and to enhance exchanges in education and healthcare. The society’s members, who work in different fields, have played an active part to aid its effort to develop the relations and make the bilateral cooperation more effective, he added.
The members then updated the PM on the society’s new projects, most notably the young doctors’ exchange programme between the two countries that seeks to help Vietnam improve healthcare service quality. It also plans to develop projects to support disadvantaged people and people with disabilities and to promote both sides’ cuisine cultures.
PM Phuc, for his part, vowed that the Government of Vietnam will support and provide all possible conditions for the society to implement the projects in the country.
The AVFS grew out of the opposition to the war in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s, marked notably by the moratoriums and an escalating anti-war movement. After some decades of change, the organization was re-launched on August 12, 2014. Its main focus is to support for the Children’s Fund in Vietnam where a lack of educational opportunity and especially malnutrition still exist and the effects of Agent Orange still linger.-VNA
You should also see
World economy’s recovery drives Vietnam’s exports
With the recovery of the world market and increasing orders, Vietnam's import and export activities in the first quarter of 2024 prospered and achieved positive results.
See more
Politics
Hoa Binh, India step up culture-tourism engagements
Secretary of the Hoa Binh Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long on April 26 hosted Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Sandeep Arya, who is heading a delegation on a working trip to the northern province.
Politics
Ba Ria – Vung Tau inks cooperation MoU with Japanese city
The southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sanjo city of Japan’s Niigata prefecture on establishing friendship and cooperative relations for the 2024 – 2026 period, at a conference held in the Vietnamese locality on April 26.
Politics
Ninh Binh expects further support from UNESCO: Provincial leader
The northern province of Ninh Binh hopes to receive further support from UNESCO to preserve and promote its cultural heritage as well as better integrate into the world’s network of heritage, tourism and cultural industry hubs and creative cities, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Doan Minh Huan has said.
Politics
Vietnam upholds mobilisation, use, management of financing for sustainable development
State capital and private resources both play an important role in meeting financial needs for development and implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), Minister Counsellor Nguyen Hoang Nguyen told the 2024 ECOSOC Financing for Development (FfD) Forum, held in New York from April 22-25.
Politics
Vietnam treasures role of UNESCO: Foreign Minister
Vietnam always attaches importance to multilateral cooperation and the role of UNESCO, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son told visiting President of the 42nd General Conference of UNESCO Simona-Mirela Miculescu in Hanoi on April 25.
