VN attends World Youth Festival

PRETORIA — A Vietnamese youth delegation, led by the first secretary of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Vo Van Thuong, attended the opening ceremony of the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students in Pretoria, South Africa, today.

The opening in Lucas ‘Masterpieces' Moripe Stadium included a parade of the participating nations; art performances; a torch light procession and military review.

At least 140 delegations are attending the festival which is intended to promote youth in the struggle for peace, solidarity and social transformation.

Viet Nam's delegation will explain Viet Nam Communist Party and State policies for youth at various gatherings over the next eight days.

Their focus will be on workshops to introduce Viet Nam; exhibits that show Viet Nam, the country and its people, and attending international seminars.

They will also attend bilateral meetings with youth from Cuba, North Korea and Laos.

The festival - the world's most important youth forum - is held every five years.

Sixteen have been held since the first in 1915. — VNS

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Vietnam-China Youth Festival opens

The Vietnam-China Youth Festival opens in China’s Guangxi province on August 25, 2010.

Photo: VNA

The Vietnam-China Youth Festival opened in China’s Guangxi province on Wednesday, which expects to attract more than 7,000 Chinese delegates along with 3,000 Vietnamese youths in activities spanning eight Chinese cities over five days.

Speaking at the ceremony, Chen Jiwa, Vice Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Guangxi expressed the belief that the festival will contribute to strengthening friendship, mutual understanding and trust between the two countries’ youth and people.

Lam Phuong Thanh, Permanent Secretary of Central Committee of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, said that under the framework of the 60th anniversary of Vietnam-China diplomatic ties and Vietnam-China Friendship Year 2010, the event is an important foundation to enhance cooperative relations and promote traditional friendship between the two nations.

With the theme, “Vietnamese and Chinese youths join hands to foster friendship”, the Vietnamese delegation will visit relics that are associated with Vietnam’s revolutionary history, join activities to protect the environment and attend exchanges with local young people and seminars on young people’s business start-up to foster cooperation between the youth of the two countries.

Festival activities will take place in Liuzhou, Guilin, Beihai, Quinzhou, Fangcheng Port, Baise, Chongzuo and Nanning.

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