Some Vietnamese people repatriated from Ukraine. (Photo: VNA) At the ministry’s regular pressmeeting held virtually, she noted when the Ukraine situation recorded tensedevelopments, the Prime Minister issued Official Dispatch No. 201/CD-TTg, datedFebruary 26, 2022, on the protection of Vietnamese citizens and legal entities,and some issues needing attention in the face of the Ukraine situation.
Recently, Foreign Minister Bui ThanhSon has continually held phone talks with his counterparts of Russia, Ukraine,and Romania, sent a letter to the Foreign Minister of Poland, and received therelevant countries’ ambassadors to Vietnam, asking for their assistance in guaranteeing maximum security and safety for Vietnamese citizens and theirfamilies and to create conditions for repatriation flights, according to Hang.
Amid extremely fast and complex developmentsof the situation in Ukraine, Vietnam’s ministries, sectors, and representative bodies in related countries have exerted all-out efforts to promptly arrange repatriationflights for Vietnamese people and their families, and help them deal withissues emerging and complete necessary procedures for bringing them home in ashortest period of time, with transparency ensured and priority given to theelderly, pregnant women, children, patients, and people with disabilities, the spokesperson said.
She informed that so far, five flights have beenconducted, safely repatriating about 1,400 Vietnamese people and their familymembers who wish to return to Vietnam.
Hang also said certain problems have arisen during the citizenprotection process, such as some people changed their mind and chose to go in their own ways, or wanted to waitfor the war to end to come back to Ukraine. Others lacked or lost necessarypapers, or their papers were out of date, needing support from therepresentative agencies. Vietnam’s representative bodies have made utmostefforts and worked closely with authorities and Vietnamese people’s associationsin the host countries to address those problems, continually update information and swiftly handle emerging issues to quickly evacuate the expatriates from war zones, andsafely bring them to Vietnam.
Efforts by domestic authorities,overseas representative bodies, airlines, and business sponsors have won oversupport and high evaluation from both the expatriates and people in Vietnam,Hang added./.
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