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Vietnam gives heed to ensuring food security: spokeswoman

The Vietnamese Government always pays attention to ensuring national food security and rice export, said the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang.
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Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnamese Government always pays attention to ensuring nationalfood security and rice export, said theForeign Ministry’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang.

She made the statement at the ministry’s regular press conference in Hanoi onMarch 26 in reply to reporters’ queries regarding the Government’s decision to temporarilysuspend signing new rice-exporting contracts.

Hang said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the ministries of Industryand Trade, Finance, and Agriculture and Rural Development to coordinate withrelevant agencies, localities and rice exporters to review the supply, exportsand reserves of the food, as well as the implementation of rice-exportingcontracts./.  


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