President, Front to jointly promote people-to-people diplomacy

The contents of the coordination program between the President and the VFF Central Committee Presidium were discussed at a meeting in Hanoi on February 14, which was co-chaired by President Tran Dai Quang and President of the VFF Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan.

President Tran Dai Quang (R) shakes hands with participants at the meeting.

Accordingly, the two sides are going to work closely to diversify activities aimed at calling for resources and joint efforts from people nationwide and overseas Vietnamese. They will also cooperate in proposing mechanisms and policies targeting expatriates, while promoting the role of persons with high prestige in minority ethnic and religious communities.

They will also coordinate to direct the organization of communication campaigns to promote patriotic emulation movements, carry out humanitarian activities, and care for disadvantaged people.

President Quang underlined the need for stronger coordination to build up and bring into play the strength of the great national unity bloc in realizing socio-economic targets, ensuring defense and security, expanding external relations, building a pure and strong political system and a law-governed socialist State, and improving people’s material and spiritual life.

He assigned the President’s Office to work with the VFF to advise the State leader about internal and external activities, especially in people-to-people diplomacy, mobilizing overseas Vietnamese’ contributions, bolstering cooperation between Vietnam’s socio-political organizations with foreign ones, thereby helping develop the country’s external relations and cooperation and creating a peaceful and stable environment for national development.

A report delivered at the meeting showed that the coordination between the President and the VFF Central Committee Presidium has helped improve the effectiveness of their respective activities in 2016. It has contributed to enhancing the great national unity bloc, encouraging people to comply with law, promoting democracy and protecting the rights and legitimate interests of people.

Source: VNA