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Subject: Vietnam News Feb 19


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> 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)
>
> ****
>
> Six million get OCultural 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 OCultural 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.
>
> ****
> 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)
>
> ****
>
> 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)
>
> ****
>
> 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)
>
> ****
>
> 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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