Vietnam
Vietnam, France shore up people-to-people exchanges
The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) held a
get-together in HCM City on July 13 to celebrate France’s Bastille Day on July
14.
At the get-together (Photo: VNA)
President of the Vietnam-France Friendship Association in HCM City Nguyen Thi
Ngoc Dung said the association has implemented various friendly exchange
programmes and people-to-people dialogues with France, contributing to
reinforcing and developing the bilateral strategic partnership.
Given the complex developments of COVID-19 in France, the association’s central
committee presented 51,000 medical masks to the country.
It also donated 25,750 medical and anti-bacterial masks to French people to
prevent the spread of the disease.
Dung said the association wants to cooperate with the French Consulate General
in HCM City and the French community to organise people-to-people diplomacy,
contributing to reinforcing and developing sound relations between the two
peoples.
Vincent Floreani, French Consul General in HCM City, affirmed that the French
Government and people attach great importance to promoting good relations with
Vietnam, in particular the rapport between French localities and HCM City.
He took the occasion to also thank the Vietnamese Government and people,
including organisations and people in HCM City, for sharing and supporting the
French people in the fight against COVID-19.
The French Consulate General in HCM City will ceaselessly work to promote
relations, especially in education, culture, and science and technology, the
diplomat added.
Over the past 30 years, the Vietnam-France Friendship Association in the city
has called on non-governmental and foreign organisations to implement nearly 500
community development projects and support needy people in 51 of Vietnam’s 63
cities and provinces.
Source: VNA