Vietnam always treasures its traditional friendship, and comprehensive partnership and cooperation with Ukraine, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said while meeting with First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Korniyenko on the sidelines of the 43rd General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-43) in Phnom Penh on November 22.
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has assigned the Ministry of Transport to coordinate the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and relevant agencies to quickly arrange flights funded by businesses to bring home Vietnamese citizens from Ukraine.
Diversifying markets will help Vietnam mitigate the potential negative impacts of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on agri-forestry-fishery trade, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
A Bamboo Airways flight carrying 300 Vietnamese people evacuated from war zones in Ukraine to Poland safely arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi in the early morning of March 10.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for a cease-fire in the war between Russia and Ukraine and said continued dialogue rather than economic sanctions on Russia is the way to resolve the crisis.
A committee has been established by the Embassy of Vietnam and the association of the Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic to help evacuate Vietnamese fleeing war zones in Ukraine.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia in coordination with the Vietnamese association in southern cities of Russia on March 7 welcomed 20 Vietnamese citizens evaculated from war zones in Ukraine to Russia.
The first flight repatriating 287 Vietnamese people evacuated from war zones in Ukraine landed at Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport at noon on March 8.
Most of the Vietnamese people wishing to move out of three big cities of Ukraine, namely Kyiv, Kharkov, and Odessa, have been evacuated in the face of the complicated situation there, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to the country Nguyen Hong Thach.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and relevant ministries and sectors to give the highest priority to protecting Vietnamese citizens in Ukraine, in the context of the escalating conflict there.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and overseas representative agencies of Vietnam are exerting utmost efforts to protect and assist Vietnamese citizens in Ukraine to weather difficulties, an official has said.
The Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on March 3 called for an immediate ceasefire or armistice in Ukraine, reiterating their belief that ‘there is still room for a peaceful dialogue’.
The Party and State of Vietnam give the highest priority to citizen protection measures so as to ensure safety of lives, assets, and legitimate and rightful interests of Vietnamese citizens and legal entities, as well as staff members of Vietnamese representative offices in Ukraine, said spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang.
