Warm Spring Hometown in Islamabad

On February 17th, the 8th day of the Lunar New Year (Year of the Dragon), the Vietnamese Embassy in Pakistan organized the 2024 Homeland Spring Festival with the participation of the Vietnamese community in Pakistan, Ambassadors and Pakistani officials who had previously worked in Vietnam, as well as representatives from several local departments, local news agencies, and a number of businesses and close partners of the Embassy.

In his opening remarks, Ambassador Nguyen Tien Phong emphasized the significance of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, highlighting the cultural and traditional values of national unity in the history of nation-building, national defense, and the current development of Vietnam.

In his opening remarks, Ambassador Nguyen Tien Phong emphasized the significance of the traditional Vietnamese Lunar New Year. (Source: Vietnamese Embassy in Pakistan)

Ambassador Nguyen Tien Phong shared that 2023 was a year of many difficulties and major, complex, and unpredictable changes, with increased uncertainty, prolonged conflicts, local wars in many regions, and climate change causing increasingly extreme weather, while the economy was slow to recover, negatively impacting all countries, including Vietnam and Pakistan.

In that context, under the wise leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam , with the efforts of the entire nation, including the significant contributions of our overseas compatriots, such as the Vietnamese community in Pakistan, the country has achieved tremendous accomplishments in all fields, as General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said, "Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, position, and international prestige as it does today."

Ambassador Nguyen Tien Phong emphasized that the achievements of 2023 have contributed to further enriching the great and historically significant achievements of the country after nearly 50 years of reunification and nearly 40 years of implementing the Doi Moi (Renovation) process.

A warm spring in Islamabad. (Source: Vietnamese Embassy in Pakistan)

Vietnam has affirmed its image and position as an independent, self-reliant, and dynamically developing country; a loyal and sincere friend, a reliable partner, and an active and responsible member of the international community; a country of peace , friendship, cooperation, and development; and a beautiful, safe, friendly, and hospitable destination…

The ambassador affirmed that these achievements could not have been attained without harnessing the strength of national unity, the unwavering will and courage, the determination, self-reliance, and the intense aspiration for independence, freedom, peace, and happiness of our nation, including the valuable and very important contributions of the Vietnamese community abroad in general...

Vietnamese people living abroad, regardless of generation or location, are descendants of Lac and Hong, always an integral part of the homeland, an inseparable component, and always present in the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese nation and people.

And no matter where you are, under what circumstances, what age you are, or what nationality you are, as a person of Vietnamese blood, as a patriotic Vietnamese, you can all contribute to the Fatherland in your own way. Because love for the Fatherland is a simple, familiar, and natural thing, a natural and legitimate need and desire of all of us.

Ambassador Nguyen Tien Phong stated that the United Nations recently adopted a decision to designate the first day of the Lunar New Year as one of the ten UN public holidays. (Source: Vietnamese Embassy in Pakistan)

The ambassador shared that the Lunar New Year – the traditional Tet holiday – is always special and sacred to every Vietnamese person. This specialness has been internationally recognized, with the United Nations recently adopting a decision to designate the first day of the Lunar New Year as one of the 10 UN public holidays.

In a warm atmosphere of friendship and solidarity, the Ambassador wished all compatriots and the community a Happy New Year, hoping that through harmonious exchanges and gatherings, with peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, and traditional dishes embodying the spirit of Vietnam during the New Year, the flavor of Tet will be spread to all Vietnamese people and Pakistani friends. The longing and desire to celebrate Tet in the homeland will be filled with the accumulation of great successes in studies and work, culminating in overwhelming happiness when one can truly immerse oneself in celebrating Tet in Vietnam in the not-too-distant future.

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