Delegates at the working session (Photo: baoquocte.vn)
In the city of Ostrava, Ambassador Tuan met Mr. Ivo Vondrak, Governor of North Moravia province.
At the meeting, the Governor highly appreciated the traditional cooperation between North Moravia and Vietnam, and introduced the strengths of the locality that Vietnam could be interested in such as education, mining industry and automobile production. He also appreciated the hard work of the Vietnamese community in the province and Vietnamese students.
For his part, Ambassador Tuan stressed that in the coming time, Vietnam and the Czech Republic should promote the signing of an agreement on education cooperation, creating a framework and favourable conditions for overseas Vietnamese students, as well exchanging students between the two countries.
He introduced priorities for cooperation between Vietnam and the Czech Republic, and between localities of the two countries, such as tourism, education and labour export.
The diplomat highly appreciated the support of North Moravia province to the Vietnamese community and suggested that the local administration should continue to create favorable conditions for the Vietnamese people to stabilize and integrate as well as support the Overseas Vietnamese Association in North Moravia and Ostrava to build a facility to organize Vietnamese cultural activities, contributing to the ethnic diversity of the Czech Republic.
During the working visit, the ambassador also met with representatives of the Executive Board of the Overseas Vietnamese Association in North Moravia and Ostrava, Giac Duc pagoda, Vietnamese enterprises and market in the province, and attended the mid-Autumn festival with Vietnamese children.
North Moravia is an industrial province in the northeast of the Czech Republic with 1.3 million people. The capital city of Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic. There are about 8,000 Vietnamese people living in the province, of which one third have Czech nationality./.