The congress elected a 25-member executive committee and aseven-member secretariat. Nguyen Phan Bao Thuy was re-elected chairman of the UEVFfor the next two years.
Speaking highly of the union’s activities, Vietnamese Ambassador to France DinhToan Thang said the UEVF is truly the core and pioneering force in activitiesof the Vietnamese youth and students, as well as the Vietnamese community inFrance. Its efforts and results over the past years form a good preconditionfor it to develop further.
He expressed his hope that the UEVF will remain an active factorof the Vietnamese community, including students, in France and carry outmeaningful activities to help the students integrate into the local society andturn their hearts towards the homeland.
The ambassador also pledged the embassy’s support the UEVF’s activities.
UEVF Chairman Thuy promised that with its members’ dedication,dynamism and solidarity, the union will hold more practical and usefulactivities for students and young people of Vietnam in France, and alwaysmaintain its role as the pioneering force in the Vietnamese community’sactivities to bring images of the homeland closer to international friends.
In the new tenure, it will work to develop and connect the network ofVietnamese intellectuals to meet the demand for science in the digital era,innovation, and renewable energy, he added.
The UEVF, one of the first associations of overseas Vietnamesestudents, now has 27 sub-unions with over 15,000 members across France./.