 NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (R) receives President of the Iran-Vietnam Friendship Association Seyed Kamal Sajjadi in Tehran on August 8. (Photo: VNA) |
The top Vietnamese legislator highly appreciated Seyed Kamal Sajjadi, who is also co-founder of the friendship association and former Iranian Ambassador to Vietnam, and his contributions to consolidating and strengthening friendship between the two countries’ peoples.
Hue highlighted the two countries’ friendship and multifaceted cooperation over the past 50 years, saying his visit to Iran aims to contribute to strengthening cooperation between Vietnam and Iran across the Party, National Assembly, Government and local channels, especially increasing the people-to-people exchanges.
IVFA President Seyed Kamal Sajjadi briefed Chairman Hue about his association’s operations, such as writing, printing and publishing a book on the land and people of Vietnam in Tehran, making a film featuring Vietnam’s land and people, with an aim of encouraging many Iranian people to travel the Southeast Asian nation, and the coordination between the two countries’ friendship associations in sharing their operation experience.
The IVFA President hoped two countries continue increasing economic-commercial and cultural cooperation.
Chairman Hue hailed the IVFA for the association’s overall outcomes, saying that in addition to organising people-to-people exchanges, the association gives advice to both sides’ enterprises, together with the Iranian government, to grant scholarships to Vietnamese students to study in Iran, and send Iranian students to Hanoi.
He hoped that the association continues to increase people-to-people exchanges, contributing to the two countries’ relations.
Highly valuing the initiative to make a film featuring the land and people of Vietnam, Hue said the Vietnamese Embassy in Iran will serve as a bridge connecting relevant Vietnamese agencies to support production of the film.
The same day, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue visited the Vietnamese embassy in Tehran and met with the Vietnamese community in Iran. Mr. Hue said: "The Party and State of Vietnam have always considered overseas Vietnamese an integral part of the homeland. The Politburo's Decree 36 on overseas Vietnamese affairs stresses the need to encourage, and create conditions for, the Vietnamese community abroad to make contributions to national construction and defense. All the agreements signed by Vietnam and Iran during this visit are intended to facilitate, and create the best possible conditions for, investors and businesses in the two countries."
Mr. Hue said he believes the Vietnamese community in Iran will stay united in upholding Vietnamese traditions and the Vietnamese language.