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Mass mobilisation commission head meets OVs in New York

Ha Thi Khiet worked with the Vietnamese permanent delegation to the United Nations and met with representatives of the Vietnamese community in New York on August 6.
Mass mobilisation commission head meets OVs in New York ảnh 1Ha Thi Khiet, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation (Photo:VNA)

Ha Thi Khiet, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation, worked with the Vietnamese permanent delegation to the United Nations and met with representatives of the Vietnamese community in New York on August 6.

Khiet lauded efforts of the Vietnamese permanent delegation to the UN and Vietnamese representative agencies in New York for performing tasks, including community work.

She urged staff to further disseminate guidelines of the Vietnamese Party towards overseas Vietnamese.

Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN said that close to 29,000 overseas Vietnamese are earning their livelihoods in New York. The number of Vietnamese settling in the US city has been increasing over the past 10 years.

Younger Vietnamese have also established a youth association in New York to host various programmes to connect Vietnamese students in the society.

She said community work will be step up to encourage Vietnamese expatriates to contribute to national construction and development.-VNA

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