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VUFO expects to receive more support from foreign NGOs
Translated by Thu Minh 10:21, 2017/01/19
Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Don Tuan Phong believed at the meeting in Hanoi on January 18 the VUFO and the Committee for Foreign Non-Governmental Organisation Affairs will receive more assistance and collaboration from partners.
VUFO expects to receive more support from foreign NGOs
Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Don Tuan Phong believed at the meeting in Hanoi on January 18 the VUFO and the Committee for Foreign Non-Governmental Organisation Affairs will receive more assistance and collaboration from partners.
The VUFO and the Committee for Foreign Non-Governmental Organisation Affairs (COMINGO) held a gathering in Hanoi on January 18 to meet with representatives from foreign organisations and non-governmental organisations on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2017.

 
VUFO Vice Chairman and Secretary General Don Tuan Phong speaks at the meeting.
VUFO Vice Chairman and Secretary General Don Tuan Phong speaks at the meeting.
At the meeting, VUFO Vice Chairman and Secretary General Don Tuan Phong said in 2016, the Vietnamese people received effective assistance and cooperation from the international community, including foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Foreign NGOs continued to assist Vietnam with more than 300 million USD in 2016, thus helping with local poverty reduction, socio-economic development, environmental protection, climate change prevention and war consequences settlement.
On behalf of the VUFO and the COMINGO, Vice Chairman Phong thanked the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front for their attention, and ministries, sectors, mass organisations and localities for coordination and support of the NGOs’ works.
Phong also highlighted the friendship and cooperation that international organisations and foreign NGOs have given to the VUFO.
He hoped that the VUFO and the COMINGO will receive more support and collaboration from partners, particularly foreign NGOs
Addressing the event, Marko Lovrekovic, Co-Director of the VUFO-NGO Resource Centre said that the foreign organisations always welcome new initiatives to improve VUFO’s NGO-related work such as the establishment of the Vietnam Institute for International and Public Diplomacy Studies in July 2016.
Representing foreign NGOs, Lovrekovic pledged they will work more closely with the People’s Aid Coordinating Committee of the COMINGO and the VUFO to address challenges, adapt to global changes and strive for a Vietnam with sustainable development.
He also affirmed that foreign NGOs will continue to work with the VUFO to support disadvantaged localities and share the country’s successes in various fields.
At the meeting.
At the meeting.
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