VNA
VFF calls for joint effort by all Vietnamese
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee has called on the
entire Vietnamese people, at home and overseas, to be fully aware of the
opportunities and challenges to the nation while trying their best to take
the country forward to industrialisation and modernisation.
The call was made in a statement issued at the end of the VFF Central
Committee's three-day meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on February 17.
It said the VFF Central Committee's third meeting called on all Vietnamese -
at home and abroad - to fully realise the opportunities and challenges to
the nation so as to enhance their patriotic tradition, strengthen unity,
develop production, practise thrift, maintain political stability and social
order and continue to take the country forward on the path of
industrialisation and modernisation.
Addressing the meeting, President of the VFF Central Committee's Presidium
Pham The Duyet called for major efforts to successfully implement the VFF's
2001 Plan of Joint Action, which, he said, was of great importance as it
lays the ground for the success of the VFF's work in the first year of the
new century.
The VFF Central Committee met to discuss the Draft Political Report to be
submitted to the forthcoming Ninth National Party Congress and the VFF's
Plan of Joint Action for 2001. (VNA)
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Six million get ŒCultural Farmers¹ Family¹ title
The Vietnam Farmers¹ Association held a conference in Hanoi on February 12
to conduct a preliminary review of a movement calling on the whole people to
build a cultural lifestyle and cultural farmers¹ families last year.
According to a report delivered at the meeting, farmers¹ associations at all
levels combined the dissemination of information with the understanding of
resolutions, policies and line of the Party and State in their activities.
The farmers¹ associations organised 515 kinds of activity, attracting more
than 20 million associations¹ members.
Of about 4.3 million farmers¹ families registered to join the movement, more
than 2.7 million families have reached the standard of ŒCultural Farmers¹
Families,¹ bringing the number of families with this title to six million.
The Vietnam Farmers¹ Association presented 24 Outstanding Emulation Flags,
31 Certificates of Commendation, A class, and six Certificates of
Commendation, B class, to provinces and cities.
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Senior UNICEF official praises care for children
The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, executive director, Carol
Bellamy has praises Vietnam's efforts to care for its children.
She says the country has gained surprising achievements in child care and
protection during the five years since her previous visit and the results
reflect the Vietnam government's implementation of its commitment to improve
living conditions for children.
Ms Bellamy also acknowledges Vietnam's success in vaccination and polio -
eradication programmes and its efforts to give children access to schooling.
But she is worried about the threat of malnutrition and dangerous diseases
affecting a number of Vietnamese children.
The senior UNICEF official also praised the Vietnam government for its
co-operation with her organisation. She hopes the co-operation will be
furthered to benefit children, especially those living in poor rural and
mountain regions.
Ms Bellamy was in Vietnam for the Second National Conference for Children
and the International Conference on Vitamin A Deficiency in Hanoi from
February 15-17. (VNA)
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Vietnam condemns air raids against Iraq
Vietnam has condemned the air raids made against Iraq on February 16 and
demanded an immediate end to such military action.
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson described the raids as rude unacceptable
military action against an independent and sovereign state and a serious
violation of the United Nations Charter. As such the raids by United States
and British aircraft were a threat to regional peace, security and
stability.
The spokesperson was responding to a question from Radio the Voice of
Vietnam seeking Vietnam's reaction to the night attacks made on the Iraqi
capital, Baghdad.
Vietnam was greatly concerned by the raids that caused heavy loss of life
and property among the Iraqi people, the spokesman told Vietnam Radio. (VNA)
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Vietnam, Russia meet on banking issues
Officials from Vietnam and Russia's central banks are discussing in Hanoi
ways to remove difficulties in foreign exchange management policy, exchange
rates, international payment, and opening of L/C for deferred payment
relating to import-export operations by the two countries' businesses.
The Russian officials, headed by a deputy governor of the Central Bank, are
on a working visit to Vietnam from February 16-23, say sources from the
International Relations Department of the State Bank of Vietnam.
Vietnam and Russia central banks' officials will have working sessions with
Vietnam's four State-owned commercial banks and import-export businesses of
Vietnam and Russia.
They will also discuss co-operation in controlling banking operations and
illegal activities relating to foreign exchange. (VNA)
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Tree planting festivals continue
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked its agencies to
focus on studying, experimenting and producing seedlings, in order to
implement effectively the programme to plant five million hectares of new
forest.
This will help localities properly develop their reforestation plan. The
Institute of Forestry Investigation and Planning and the Institute of
Forestry Science have provided their support to localities in producing high
quality seedlings and planning forest land.
Thanh Hoa province has launched their tree planting festivals and planted
600,000 trees.
The central province of Quang Ngai plans to plant 5,400 hectares of forest
this year. Of this figure, 1,700 hectares are protective forests; 2,200
hectares, material supply forests and the two plantations of Ba To and Tra
Tan will be responsible for planting the remaining 150 hectares.
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