HCM CITY — Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has approved a plan to organise a conference that will review different aspects of marriages between Vietnamese nationals and foreigners.
The conference will be held the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in co-ordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Viet Nam Women's Union and the Ho Chi Minh Youth Communist League.
The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Can Tho will host such a conference in the first quarter of next year.
Thousands of women from the region have, over the last decade, been married to foreign nationals, most often through illegal brokering services. In many cases, the women have had to suffer abusive treatment at the hands of their husbands and in-laws.
More than 300 delegates from across the country are expected to attend the meeting.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said the conference aimed to analyse the phenomenon of arranged marriages with foreign nationals and discuss measures to prevent and stop the negative fall out from such liasions. — VNS
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