General Secretary To Lam met with the Vietnamese community and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK.

VTV.vn - On the evening of October 28, General Secretary To Lam and his wife met with overseas Vietnamese, representatives of Vietnamese associations, and officials and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK.

General Secretary To Lam and his wife with the Vietnamese community in the UK. (Photo: VNA)

Within the framework of the official visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), on the evening of October 28, local time, at Raffles Hotel in London, General Secretary To Lam and his wife, along with the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, had a cordial meeting with a large number of overseas Vietnamese living, working and studying in the UK, representatives of the Vietnamese association in the UK, and officials and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Do Minh Hung, on behalf of the community, expressed his joy and emotion when the General Secretary, his wife and the comrades in the delegation, immediately after arriving in London, held their first meeting with overseas Vietnamese. This demonstrated the great affection and care of the Party and State for overseas Vietnamese, including the Vietnamese community in the UK, affirming the consistent policy of our Party and State on firmly consolidating the great national unity, strongly promoting the strength of the entire nation for the cause of national construction and development.

Ambassador Do Minh Hung said that currently, the Vietnamese community in the UK has more than 100,000 people, actively integrating into the host society. The vast majority of people have a patriotic spirit, strive to maintain traditional identity, strengthen community solidarity, "mutual love", and always turn towards the Fatherland with specific actions and deeds.

General Secretary To Lam and his wife presented a statue of President Ho Chi Minh to the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK. (Photo: VNA)

The community of Vietnamese businesses and intellectuals in the UK is growing stronger and stronger, serving as an important bridge for trade, scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries. In recent times, the Embassy has made many efforts in implementing community work in the area, which has been recognized and trusted by the community.

In the intimate atmosphere of the meeting, representatives of the Vietnamese Association, the Vietnamese Intellectual Association, and the Vietnamese Student Association in the UK expressed that the visit and meeting of the General Secretary and his wife along with the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation is a great encouragement for the Vietnamese community far from the Fatherland; affirmed that the Vietnamese community still maintains its own identity in the host country, where many Asian communities and other international communities live, which are the qualities of diligence, studiousness, loyalty and responsibility, the spirit of overcoming difficulties, the strong will to rise up, integration but still maintaining traditional culture and looking back to the roots; wishing to contribute to the development of the country, especially in the fields of science and technology and digital transformation, as well as receiving the attention of the Party and State in building mechanisms and policies to encourage intellectuals and overseas students to return to contribute to the homeland.

Warmly inquiring about the people, General Secretary To Lam expressed his joy and emotion at the warm, enthusiastic welcome, full of homeland affection, from the overseas Vietnamese community in the UK for the General Secretary and the working delegation.

Listening to the aspirations of the people, General Secretary To Lam was pleased that overseas Vietnamese always turned to their homeland, updated the country's situation as well as paid attention to the policies of the Party and State.

The General Secretary said that this visit by the high-ranking delegation of the Party and State takes place in the context of the Vietnam-UK relationship developing very well.

The General Secretary asked the British side to pay attention and create conditions for the Vietnamese community in the UK to continue to stabilize and develop, and to make positive contributions to the development of both the UK and Vietnam, serving as an important bridge in the relationship between the two countries.

The General Secretary emphasized the special relationship between Vietnam and the UK, where President Ho Chi Minh left his mark on his journey to find a way to save the country, with famous landmarks such as the blue plaque bearing his name at the New Zealand House building on Haymarket Street or the stone stele at the seaport of Newhaven city.

The General Secretary said that the development of science and technology needs to pay attention to human resources, intellectuals, and highly productive workers, affirming that the State has special preferential policies to attract leading experts to create a strong new economic driving force, promote the spirit of resilience, pride, and national self-respect of our people, and at the same time remind the overseas Vietnamese community to pay attention to preserving and promoting cultural traditions, especially maintaining the Vietnamese language for the next generations.

The General Secretary advised Vietnamese students to continue to strive to study and research to achieve high results, make useful contributions to the host society and look towards their homeland, affirming that the State is ready to welcome Vietnamese students and intellectuals back to the country.

The General Secretary acknowledged and highly appreciated the contributions of overseas Vietnamese; affirmed that the Party and State will continue to care for our compatriots abroad, creating conditions for them to feel secure living, studying and working abroad; at the same time, he believed that with the tradition of patriotism, the spirit of self-reliance, self-strengthening, intelligence and Vietnamese mettle, the Vietnamese community in the UK, together with the community around the world, will continue to be a source of strength, joining hands and unanimity with the country in the new stage of national development; wished that the Embassy would be a reliable support for the Vietnamese community abroad, promoting the strength of solidarity and effectively promoting community resources to contribute to the development of the country.

On this occasion, General Secretary To Lam and his wife Ngo Phuong Ly presented the Embassy and the community with gifts from the homeland and Vietnamese language books for children and Vietnamese language classes of the community so that they can better understand the heroic history and traditional cultural beauty of the nation, thereby further connecting with their homeland.

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