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Embassy hosts New Year gathering with overseas Vietnamese in Belgium

The Embassy of Vietnam in Belgium held a get-together with overseas Vietnamese on March 4 to celebrate the Lunar Year of the Buffalo.
Embassy hosts New Year gathering with overseas Vietnamese in Belgium ảnh 1Vietnamese Ambassador to Belgium Vu Anh Quang (R) presents a souvenir to a member of the Vietnamese community in the European country (Photo: VNA)
Brussels (VNA) – The Embassy of Vietnam in Belgium held a get-together with overseasVietnamese on March 4 to celebrate the Lunar Year of the Buffalo.

At the event,Ambassador to Belgium Vu Anh Quang extended his greetings to the local Vietnamesecommunity, and voiced his encouragement to the community after a year full of hardshipscaused by COVID-19, while expressing his gratitude for their activities insupport of the homeland.

Quang, who is also headof the Vietnamese mission to the EU, also informed the participants on futureactivities, along with the results of the fight against COVID-19 in Vietnam,the country’s socio-economic development and success of the 13th National PartyCongress which took place before Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.

Despite difficulties,the association of Vietnamese people in Belgium raised 6,000 EUR (7,170 USD)for flood victims in Vietnam’s central region last year, which helped farmersat a cooperative to resume production and stabilise their lives, according to amember of the organisation./.
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