The congress to launch the Association of Vietnamese Students in Europe was recently held both online and at the Embassy of Vietnam in Brussels, Belgium, with support from the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam and Vietnam’s representative agencies in Europe.

The congress was attended by representatives of Vietnamese youths and students in 11 European countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Spain, Italia and Finland and witnessed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, the Vietnam Youth Federation and the Association of Vietnamese in Europe.

At the ceremony, associations of Vietnamese students in different European countries officially established the Association of Vietnamese Students in Europe and elected a provisional executive committee with 24 members, who were presidents and vice-presidents of different Vietnamese student associations, led by the President of the Vietnamese Student Association in Czech Republic Nguyen Thi Dieu Linh.

The Association of Vietnamese Students in Europe in the period 2021 – 2023 was officially established. Photo: Vietnam Times

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Pham Quang Hieu sent a congratulatory letter to the newly established association, affirming that the launching of the association was of great importance.

Deputy Minister Quang Hieu expressed his belief that the Association of Vietnamese Students in Europe would sustainably link Vietnamese students and students of Vietnamese origin in Europe and hope that the association would carry out practical activities to support Vietnam.

On behalf of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, deputy director of the committee’s Department of Economic Relations and Science and Technology Nguyen Dieu Linh praised the contributions and efforts of Vietnamese students’ associations in Europe.

She hoped that the new association would become a shared space for Vietnamese students, providing a common environment for the Vietnamese youths in Europe to develop and mobilize Vietnamese intellectual resources in contribution to Vietnam’s growth and Vietnam’s relations with European countries.

Participants took a commemorative photo at the Embassy of Vietnam in Belgium. Photo: Vietnam Times

Discussing the association’s upcoming plan, the provisional president of the Vietnamese Students’ Association in Europe Dieu Linh affirmed and underlined the association’s care for the Vietnamese youth in Europe. Dieu Linh added that the association hoped to connect and form a network to help Vietnamese youth in integration into European society and job seeking, contributing to nurturing Vietnamese intellectuals in Europe. This was one of the main missions that the congress participants agreed on.

Overseas Vietnamese youth is playing an increasingly important role in the growth and protection of Vietnam. Conclusion No.120-KL/TW on overseas Vietnamese affairs in the new situation issued by the Politburo on August 12, 2021, highlighted the mission to “continue raising the awareness and sense of responsibility in carrying out the Party and state of Vietnam’s national unity policy for Vietnamese abroad. In addition, it is important to improve and diversify activities to mobilize overseas Vietnamese, especially Vietnamese youth abroad, to contribute actively to the development of localities and enhancing the relations between Vietnam and other countries.”

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