Ambassador Nguyen Phu Binh, Chairman of the Association for Liaison with Overseas Vietnamese (OV), said the association has carried out various events in response to the VFF’s action programs on the work of the OV affairs over the past years, with ceremonies held across Asia, Europe and America to commemorate Hung Kings – the legendary founder of the nation being an outstanding ones that help spread the nation’s traditional values among the OVs.
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With a view to ensuring legitimate rights for the OVs, the association’s leaders have engaged in the building of related legal documents, particularly proposing the amendment of the Citizenship Law in order to allow individuals who have renounced their Vietnamese citizenship to retain in the permission of multiple citizenships in several European countries, he said. Besides, it signed an agreement with the Vietnam Bar Federation on the establishment of a center for legal consultation and assistance for the OVs regarding the issues of immigration, residency, marriage and inheritance.
As part of the efforts to promote the association’s roles in the front’s work in the coming tenure, it will enhance coordination with the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs’ agencies as well as the Party and State’s organizations and localities while steadfastly advocating for the development of a roadmap to carry out the voting and nominating rights for the Vietnamese citizens living abroad.
Furthermore, due attention will be paid to the compilation of bilingual Vietnamese language textbook, expansion of online Vietnamese teaching classes and promotion of Vietnamese teaching and learning through folk songs and fairy tales, he added.
Meanwhile, Most Venerable Thich Thanh Nhieu, standing member of the Patronage Council and Permanent Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS), stressed that the VBS has made efforts to concretize the VFF’s action programs, focusing on mobilizing and uniting people from all walks of life to consolidate and bolster the strength of the great national solidarity in national building and safeguarding the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Due regard has been given to popularizing the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and regulations among the Vietnamese people both inside and outside the nation, helping create public consensus to successfully concretize socio-economic development targets and ensure defense and security, he added.
Source: VNA