Vietnam Fatherland Front honours hearts for Central region in Czech Republic

The four organizations include Fellow Countrymen Associations of Nghe Tinh and Quang Binh, Group Toward Central Region and Overseas Vietnamese Branch in Sa Pa Trade Centre.

The movement toward the beloved Central region 2016 was launched by VFF Central Committee in October. The Vietnamese Embassy and the Overseas Vietnamese Association in the Czech Republic called upon Vietnamese associations, organizations, businesses and individuals operating and living in Czech Republic to raise VND2 billion for people whose property was damaged by floods in Vietnam’s Central region.

On the same day, Mr. Tran Thanh Man, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Vice President and General Secretary of the VFF, and the delegates from the VFF Central Committee had a working session with the Vietnamese Embassy and leaders of the Union of Overseas Vietnamese Associations in Europe and the Overseas Vietnamese Association in the Czech Republic.

Ambassador Truong Manh Son reported the political-diplomatic-economic relationship between Vietnam and the Czech Republic, and stressed that in 2017 the embassy continues to set the goal of "diplomatic activity serving bilateral economic cooperation development" and is ready to serve as a bridge so that localities of Vietnam and the Czech Republic approach each other.

Mr. Tran Thanh Man appreciated the achievements that the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic has achieved over the past years in the direction of "deeply integrating into the local society and closely sticking to the homeland."

He affirmed that the model of operation of the Overseas Vietnamese Association in the Czech Republic is very effective, and worth studying and sharing./.