During the program to attend the G20 Summit and bilateral activities in South Africa, on the afternoon of November 21 local time, in the city of pretoria, Politburo member, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, his wife Le Thi Bich Tran and the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation met with officials and staff of the Embassy and the Vietnamese community in South Africa.
According to VNA, speaking at the meeting, the Prime Minister said that during this visit, the leaders of Vietnam and South Africa agreed to upgrade bilateral relations to a Strategic Partnership. The two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation and investment in key areas such as agriculture, minerals, clean energy, exploitation, petrochemical refining, promoting bilateral trade, tourism, people-to-people exchanges, etc.
Recognizing and praising the important contributions of the Vietnamese community across five continents, including the Vietnamese community in South Africa and the common achievements of the country, the Prime Minister stated that our Party and State always care about our compatriots abroad, identifying the overseas Vietnamese community as an inseparable part of the Vietnamese ethnic community.
The policies and guidelines of the Party and State have been concretized in caring for the overseas Vietnamese community, supporting people to have a solid legal status, stabilize their lives, and integrate into the host society; firmly consolidating the great national unity bloc; encouraging and creating conditions for people to actively contribute to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland; actively coordinating to resolve proposals, problems, and difficulties of overseas Vietnamese.
Recently, a number of policies for overseas Vietnamese have been concretized in laws such as the Land Law, the Law of Identification, the Law on Real Estate Business, the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Vietnamese nationality, the Law on Science and Technology, etc. New policies have been issued in the direction of creating more favorable conditions for people returning to the country to live, work, study, research, etc.; creating conditions for the overseas Vietnamese community to "shine".
The Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy and representative agencies to continue to do a good job of protecting citizens, be more proactive, creative, and more determined. Officials need to find ways to do it, especially regularly listen to and receive opinions from people with the most favorable channels and methods, operate 24/7, especially when people are in difficulty and disaster and need support and assistance... At the same time, actively promote and contribute to implementing agreements of senior leaders into specific projects and programs.
The Prime Minister said that during the working sessions, the Prime Minister suggested that South Africa continue to pay attention to and create favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community, work stably, and integrate well into South African society, including policies on residence, labor, etc.
The Prime Minister hopes that the Vietnamese community in South Africa will increasingly develop, always be united, well integrated into the host society, respect the laws of the host country, preserve the image and prestige of the country, preserve the culture, identity, Vietnamese language, promote the role of a bridge between Vietnam and South Africa; each person can take care of themselves and when given the conditions, contribute to building the country, contribute to the relationship between the two countries.
