At the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung has symbolically handed over 550,000 made-in-Vietnam anti-bacterial masks as gifts from the Vietnamese Government andpeople to help their counterparts of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK tofight the COVID-19pandemic.
Attending the handover ceremony in Hanoi on April 7 were the ambassadors of France, Germany, Italy,Spain and the UK, and the ambassador, head of the European Union Delegation toVietnam.
Speaking at the event, Dung said amid the current global medical crisis, no single country could effectively contain thespread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Internationalcooperation and enhancing solidarity are important factors to protect the health and safety of people, helpingto mitigate the great impacts of the epidemic, hesaid.
Vietnam always stays ready towork closely, share experience and join hands with countries and the international community to takenecessary measures, within bilateral and material frameworks such as the ASEAN-EU, G20 and the United Nations, with the determination to contain and soon push back the epidemic, Dungadded.
The participating ambassadors highly appreciated and thanked the Vietnamese Government and peoplefor their valuable assistance to France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK in thisdifficult moment.
Though Vietnam has been heavily affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the country has been willingto share resources,provide medical services and create favourable conditions for foreign citizens in Vietnam over the past time, including the treatmentof infected persons, they said.
The ambassadors also pledged to closely coordinate and step up cooperation with Vietnam inprotecting the health and safety of people, maintain cooperative relations and trade, share information and offermutual support to overcome the current difficulties./.