Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 1 urged authorities of central provinces to make maximum efforts to support residents hit by recent storms and floods.
Truong Thi Mai, Politburo member and Chairwoman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation, has stressed the need to stabilise livelihoods of people in the central province of Quang Tri, who have suffered huge damage from storm Molave.
The settlement of the consequences of the recent storms and flooding in the central region was high on the agenda at the Government’s monthly meeting on October 30, during which Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc demanded that efforts to compensate local residents for their losses be redoubled.
ASEAN Foreign Ministers on October 27 issued a statement on recent floods and landslides that caused huge losses of life and property in Southeast Asian nations.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received UN Resident Coordinator Kamal Malhotra and chief representatives of UN organisations in Vietnam on October 21.
State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi has offered her sympathy to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on heavy losses of life and property from floods and landslides in the central region.
Vietnamese people both home and abroad are joining hands to support flood-hit residents in the central region, which has suffered heavy losses of life and property over recent days.
Prolonged torrential rain overnight on July 20-21 caused flooding in a number of localities in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, killing two and injuring one, according to the Ha Giang Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh and Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Motegi Toshimitsu co-chaired the 13th Mekong - Japan Ministerial Conference on July 9, focusing on promoting cooperation between Mekong countries and Japan in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has mobilised over 4,000 people, including army soldiers, police, militias and local residents, in search for missing people after a severe flash flood swept through the province on October 11.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc extended condolences to his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe over great losses of life and property in recent earthquakes in Kumamoto prefecture and surrounding areas.
Ambassador Le Hoai Trung, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the
United Nations, shared Vietnam’s experience on disaster preparedness at
the launch of IASC/ODI Report “Dare to Prepare: Taking Risks Seriously”
on February 27. Following is the full text of his presentation.
The Vietnamese Ambassador to the US, Nguyen Quoc Cuong, has appealed for
a new Vietnam-US partnership framework to be agreed during President
Truong Tan Sang’s upcoming American visit from July 24-26.
In
a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency, the ambassador said:
“Nearly one decade has passed since the two nations established the
current framework of constructive, friendly partnership and
multi-faceted cooperation on the basis of equality, mutual respect and
benefit.”
Vietnam is determined to preserve and uphold its traditional
friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, considering these a valuable asset transferable to younger
generations.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono shortened his state visit
to Vietnam and returned home on Oct. 27 for post-tsunami and
earthquake rescue work.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged peaceful dialogues to solve
outstanding problems on the Korean Peninsula, especially regarding
the Cheonan ship accident.
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XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
