Accordingly, with spirit of humanity and placing the highest priority to the protection of Vietnamese citizens, the Government allows the organization of flights repatriating Vietnamese people and their families, with the initial number of 900 Vietnamese people, who will depart from Poland, Romania or Moldova.
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Gov't approves policy to organize flights repatriating Vietnamese from Ukraine. |
They will receive COVID-19 tests upon their arrival in Vietnam and take necessary medical measures in line with the Ministry of Health’s instruction.
The Government assigned the Ministry of Transport to take the major charge of arranging the flights, while the Ministry of Finance was asked to finance the flights.
As part of efforts to implement the Prime Minister’s direction, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has worked with the Ministry of Transport to conduct two repatriation flights, one departing from Romania on March 7 and the other from Poland on March 8.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to coordinate with relevant agencies to continue to arrange flights to evacuate Vietnamese people and their family members from dangerous areas in Ukraine to neighboring countries, and bring those who wish to return to Vietnam depending on the real situation and capacity of Vietnam.
In recent days, Vietnamese representative offices in Ukraine and neighboring countries have coordinated closely with local authorities and Vietnamese associations in host countries to support the Vietnamese community to evacuate from war areas and provide them with temporary accommodations and essential necessities.
According to the offices, as of March 4, almost of Vietnamese people in Kiev and Odessa and hundreds of people in Kharkov had been evacuated to neighboring countries. Of them, 370 had come to Romania, 200 had been on the way from Moldova to Romania, 600 from Ukraine had arrived in Poland, about 125 had reached to Hungary and about 40 had come to Slovakia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ group for citizen protection and representative offices are keeping a close watch on the situation and receiving requests from Vietnamese people through citizen protection hotlines.
Vietnamese in Ukraine and neighboring who need support or wish to flee from war areas can contact the ministry and representative offices in countries through following phone numbers:
+ Ministry of Foreign Affairs: +84-965411118, +84-981848484; Email: baohocongdan@gmail.com
+ Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine: +380 (63) 8638999
+ Vietnamese Embassy in Russia: +79916821617
+ Vietnamese Embassy in Poland: 0048782257359
+ Vietnamese Embassy in Romania: 0040744645037
+ Vietnamese Embassy in Slovakia: +421 2 5245 1263, +421 915 419 568.
Source: VNA