Japan-VN Friendship Council member honoured

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) has presented an insignia “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” to Hosoya Kumiko, member of the Japan-Vietnam Council for Peace and Friendship (JVPF).

Addressing the presentation ceremony in Hanoi on Dec. 3, VUFO Vice President Tran Dac Loi thanked Kumiko for her active support to Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and disadvantaged Vietnamese children and provision of scholarships to boarding school ethnic students over the past 15 years.

Kumiko has written a diary about her visits to 29 families of AO victims and AO victims at the Peace and Friendship Villages in Hanoi and the AO Victims Rehabilitation Centres in the northern province of Thai Binh, central Da Nang city, the southern province of Tay Ninh and Tu Du Hospital in HCM City during 16 times of visiting Vietnam.

She also made a DVD recording memories of AO victims in Thai Binh province.

Kumiko said she would like to convey to younger generations of Japanese an image of the life of Vietnamese AO victims that she had witnessed with her own eyes.

She also promised to provide further assistance to the victims.

Also on this occasion, Hiramatsu Tomoko, a member of the JVPF delegation, presented a book on former Vietnamese Vice State President Nguyen Thi Binh to VUFO Vice President Loi.

The 300-page book, which was published in Japan in November 2010, praised Binh with illustrated pictures of the Japan-Vietnam friendship and the consequences of the war in Vietnam./.

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VN, Chinese heads laud nations' youth

HA NOI — The tradition of friendship between Viet Nam and China is a precious possession held in common by both nations, wrote Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh in a letter to the Viet Nam-China Youth Festival.

The relationship had been fostered by the late Presidents Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong and generations of revolutionaries and people in both countries, the letter said.

The tradition of friendship was manifested in the comprehensive strategic co-operation and partnership forged by the two countries under the motto of ‘friendly neighbourliness, comprehensive co-operation, long-lasting stability and looking towards the future' and in the spirit of ‘good neighbours, good friends, good comrades and good partners,' Manh wrote in the letter.

In his own letter to the festival, Chinese President and Party leader Hu Jintao said China was committed along with Viet Nam to constantly boosting co-operation in every field and deepening exchanges and friendship between the two countries.

He reaffirmed the importance of exchanges between young people, which would help boost mutual understanding and bring the friendship closer to the hearts of all people in both countries. The future of the two countries and of the relationship belonged to the younger generations, he said.

The festival, taking place in Guangxi, China, is celebrating the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and China. — VNS

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