President Vo Van Thuong meets with reputable citizens from ethnic minority groups across the country on December 12. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – President Vo Van Thuong onDecember 12 hosted 70 representatives out of 500 reputable citizens from ethnic minority groups across the country.
President Thuong said that the Party and State paygreat attention to ethnic minority communities, with the issuance ofmany policies to support them, including national target programmes aiming toenhance the living conditions of ethnic minority groups.
He highlighted the great contributions of ethnic minoritycommunities to the revolutionary cause of the Party and people both in the paststruggle for national independence and reunification as well as to the presentnational construction and development.
The State leader spoke highly of the efforts by reputablepeople in implementing the Party and State’s guidelines and policies,encouraging other people to comply with laws, ensuring security, socialorder and safety. They also promote production and build the national greatsolidarity bloc, and develop cultural life in the community, contributing topreserving and promoting national cultural values.
President Vo Van Thuong poses a group photo with reputable people from ethnic minority groups. (Photo: VNA)
He said he hopes that elderly, heads of villages andreputable people from ethnic minority groups will continue to show strongperformance in realising the Party’s policies on promoting the tradition andthe strength from the great national solidarity bloc, thus making the nationmore prosperous.
The State leader asked ministries, sectors and localities to implementingpolicies and the national target programme on socioeconomic development in mountainousand ethnic minority-inhabited areas in a more effective manner, while mobilisingthe engagement and supervision of the people in the work and encouraginghouseholds and individuals from ethnic minority groups to escape poverty.
President Thuong expressed his hope that senior citizens, heads of villages andprestigious people will continue to work to preserve and promote the uniquecultural values of their ethnic groups, while popularising the Party and State’spolicies and laws to local residents so as to prevent and combat allegations andplots to divide the great national solidarity bloc./.
The Ministry of Health held a seminar in Hanoi on November 6 to review the improvement of public healthcare, physical well-being of ethnic minority people and the prevention of child malnutrition, under Project No. 7 of the National Target Programme on Socio-economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas.
A seminar was held in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on November 28 to launch the second phase of the programme titled “Reaching the Furthest Behind - Improving the quality of life of especially disadvantaged community groups in Ha Giang, Quang Tri and Hoa Binh provinces”.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Hoang Giang reaffirmed that amnesty is a humanitarian policy of the Party and State, reflecting the Vietnamese tradition of compassion and winning attention and high praise both domestically and internationally.
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With a tight 13-month deadline, the move is under a strategic and urgent policy to bridge educational gaps, train the local workforce, and shore up territorial sovereignty in some of the country’s most remote areas.
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A 21-year-old Indian tourist was successfully resuscitated and treated by doctors at Hoan My Da Nang Hospital after a near-drowning incident left him in critical condition. After three days of intensive care, the man was discharged from the hospital and has since returned to India.
In an document issued on August 5, the PM emphasised the need to stablise living conditions for people hit by floods, landslides, and flash floods in late July and early August in northern and north-central provinces, especially Dien Bien, Son La, and Nghe An which suffered some of the worst damage.
Although millions of Vietnamese were affected by AO, only over 626,000 individuals, including war veterans and their children suffering from dioxin-related conditions, are currently receiving state benefits.
President Vo Van Thuong meets with reputable citizens from ethnic minority groups across the country on December 12. (Photo: VNA) 
President Vo Van Thuong poses a group photo with reputable people from ethnic minority groups. (Photo: VNA) 
