Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) received President of the Australia-Vietnam Friendship Society Kim Sampson on March 15 (Photo: VNA)Canberra (VNA) – Prime MinisterNguyen Xuan Phuc highly spoke of efforts by the Australia – Vietnam FriendshipSociety (AVFS) to promote friendship and mutual understanding between people ofVietnam and Australia while talking to AVFS President Kim Sampson on March 15.
PM Phuc met with Kim in Canberra on thesecond day of his official visit to Australia from March 14-18.
He informed Kim the results of his talks withAustralian PM Malcolm Turnbull, especially the official establishment of theStrategic Partnership between the two countries.
He urged the AVFS to further step upcooperation programmes and projects in economics, trade, investment, culture,sports, healthcare, and people-to-people exchange between Vietnam and Australiato match the new level of ties.
Welcoming the PM, Kim said the society hascarried out many projects to support Vietnam, particularly the settlement of AgentOrange/Dioxin consequences, and to enhance exchanges in education andhealthcare. The society’s members, who work in different fields, have played anactive part to aid its effort to develop the relations and make the bilateralcooperation more effective, he added.
The members then updated the PM on thesociety’s new projects, most notably the young doctors’ exchange programmebetween the two countries that seeks to help Vietnam improve healthcare servicequality. It also plans to develop projects to support disadvantaged people andpeople with disabilities and to promote both sides’ cuisine cultures.
PM Phuc, for his part, vowed that theGovernment of Vietnam will support and provide all possible conditions for thesociety to implement the projects in the country.
The AVFS grew outof the opposition to the war in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s, marked notably by the moratoriums and an escalatinganti-war movement. After some decades of change, the organization wasre-launched on August 12, 2014. Its main focusis to support for the Children’s Fund in Vietnam where a lack of educationalopportunity and especially malnutrition still exist and the effects of AgentOrange still linger.-VNA
PM Phuc met with Kim in Canberra on thesecond day of his official visit to Australia from March 14-18.
He informed Kim the results of his talks withAustralian PM Malcolm Turnbull, especially the official establishment of theStrategic Partnership between the two countries.
He urged the AVFS to further step upcooperation programmes and projects in economics, trade, investment, culture,sports, healthcare, and people-to-people exchange between Vietnam and Australiato match the new level of ties.
Welcoming the PM, Kim said the society hascarried out many projects to support Vietnam, particularly the settlement of AgentOrange/Dioxin consequences, and to enhance exchanges in education andhealthcare. The society’s members, who work in different fields, have played anactive part to aid its effort to develop the relations and make the bilateralcooperation more effective, he added.
The members then updated the PM on thesociety’s new projects, most notably the young doctors’ exchange programmebetween the two countries that seeks to help Vietnam improve healthcare servicequality. It also plans to develop projects to support disadvantaged people andpeople with disabilities and to promote both sides’ cuisine cultures.
PM Phuc, for his part, vowed that theGovernment of Vietnam will support and provide all possible conditions for thesociety to implement the projects in the country.
The AVFS grew outof the opposition to the war in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s, marked notably by the moratoriums and an escalatinganti-war movement. After some decades of change, the organization wasre-launched on August 12, 2014. Its main focusis to support for the Children’s Fund in Vietnam where a lack of educationalopportunity and especially malnutrition still exist and the effects of AgentOrange still linger.-VNA
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