(VOVworld) – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Netherlands to continue helping Vietnam cope with climate change, especially in the context of Vietnam facing the most severe ongoing drought and saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta for the past century.

Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) and Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Environment, Melainie Schultz Van Haegen. (Photo: Phuong Hoa/VNA)

At a reception in Hanoi on Wednesday for the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Environment, Melainie Schultz Van Haegen, Phuc said that, with its hundreds of years of experience in water management, the Netherlands may be able to offer effective solutions for Vietnam to mitigate against natural disasters.

Van Haegen said the Dutch government has and will continue to share its experience with Vietnam in devising long-term climate change response strategies, especially in coping with drought and saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta.