Top legislator extends greetings to VBS
(VOVWORLD) - National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on Wednesday visited the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Executive Council on the occasion of the Buddha’s 2563rd birthday.
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She congratulated the VBS on successfully hosting the 16th United Nations Day of Vesak 2019.
Most Venerable Thich Thanh Nhieu, Permanent Vice Chairman of the VBS’s Executive Council, said foreign delegates to the 16th UN Day of Vesak have applauded favourable conditions the Vietnamese Party, Government, National Assembly and Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee have created for the VBS to successfully organise the event.
The top legislator reiterated the Vietnamese Party and State’s consistent policy of respecting the rights to freedom of belief and religion, including Buddhism. She lauded the VBS’s continuous efforts in promoting the harmony, solidarity and unification within Buddhism, and accompanying the nation. Chairwoman Ngan believed that the VBS will continue encouraging Buddhist monks, nuns and followers nationwide to well implement the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws, perform their citizen rights and unite together in national construction and defence.