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Traditional Tet dishes introduced to int’l friends in New York

As the Lunar New Year (Tet) is just around the corner, the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations in New York held an event on February 7 to introduce traditional Tet dishes of Vietnam and celebrate the recognition of the Lunar New Year as a UN floating holiday.
Traditional Tet dishes introduced to int’l friends in New York ảnh 1Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang (first, left) and his spouse prepare and introduce traditional Tet dishes of Vietnam to the guests at the event on February 7. (Photo: VNA)
New York (VNA) – As the Lunar New Year (Tet) is just around the corner, the PermanentMission of Vietnam to the United Nations in New York held an event on February 7to introduce traditional Tet dishes of Vietnam and celebrate the recognition ofthe Lunar New Year as a UN floating holiday.

The banquetwas attended by a number of diplomats in New York, including ambassadors andchargés d’affaires of all missions of the member and observer countries of theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Vietnamese National Assemblydelegation attending a joint Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) - UN hearing, and theASEAN Chair’s special envoy Myanmar.

Highlighting the importance of Tet in thetraditional culture of Vietnam and many Asian countries, Ambassador Dang HoangGiang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, expressed his hope thatin the Year of the Dragon 2024, member states of the UN, especially the ASEANCommittee in New York, will continue strengthening cooperation and solidarityand jointly seek solutions to global challenges, thus contributing a world ofpeace, stability, and sustainable development.

At the event, the ambassador, his spouse, andstaff members of the Vietnamese mission prepared and offered the country’straditional and typical Tet dishes to the guests.

On December 22, 2023, the UN General Assemblyadopted a resolution recognising the Lunar New Year as a UN floating holiday. Theresolution says this is a holiday in many member states and also encourages UNagencies not to hold meetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The recognition came as a result of the campaigningcoordination at the UN. Vietnam was one of the 12 countries submitting the jointproposal on this regard to UN leaders in August 2023 and also actively campaignedfor the recognition./.
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