23/10/2008
VNA (Hanoi)
Son Song Son, member of the Party Central Committee and vice director of the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region, met with 350 dignitaries, monks and nuns from 141 Therevada Khmer Buddhist pagodas in southern Tra Vinh Province on Oct. 22.
Thach Hel, Permanent Vice Secretary of Tra Vinh Party Committee, and Most Venerable Thach Sock Xane, Vice Chairman of the Solidarity Association of Patriotic Monks and Nuns in Tra Vinh Province were present at the meeting.
Son highlighted the Party and State’s care for the implementation of policies on nationalities and religions, creating favourable conditions for development of religions.
The material and spiritual life of Khmer people in Tra Vinh and other Mekong Delta provinces has been unceasingly improved, he said. Since 2005, Tra Vinh has built and presented 13,330 houses to poor Khmer families.
This year, the government has through Programmes 134 and 135 provided 55.3 billion VND for Tra Vinh to develop production and infrastructure facilities, improve grassroots officials’ capacity and help develop services for poor people.
Son talked with the dignitaries, monks and nuns about the Vietnamese Party and Government’s position in the international arena after joining the WTO two years ago. He said that Vietnam, an independent and sovereign country, is traveling on its path to socialism.
The Khmer people should actively implement the Party and State policies, contributing to national construction and strengthening Vietnam-Cambodia neighbourliness, friendship and unity, Son said.
Earlier on Oct. 21, Son met with nearly 500 Kinh and Khmer key officials from Khmer inhabited localities in Tra Vinh. He urged them to focus on the training of Khmer officials.
Thach Hel, Permanent Vice Secretary of Tra Vinh Party Committee, and Most Venerable Thach Sock Xane, Vice Chairman of the Solidarity Association of Patriotic Monks and Nuns in Tra Vinh Province were present at the meeting.
Son highlighted the Party and State’s care for the implementation of policies on nationalities and religions, creating favourable conditions for development of religions.
The material and spiritual life of Khmer people in Tra Vinh and other Mekong Delta provinces has been unceasingly improved, he said. Since 2005, Tra Vinh has built and presented 13,330 houses to poor Khmer families.
This year, the government has through Programmes 134 and 135 provided 55.3 billion VND for Tra Vinh to develop production and infrastructure facilities, improve grassroots officials’ capacity and help develop services for poor people.
Son talked with the dignitaries, monks and nuns about the Vietnamese Party and Government’s position in the international arena after joining the WTO two years ago. He said that Vietnam, an independent and sovereign country, is traveling on its path to socialism.
The Khmer people should actively implement the Party and State policies, contributing to national construction and strengthening Vietnam-Cambodia neighbourliness, friendship and unity, Son said.
Earlier on Oct. 21, Son met with nearly 500 Kinh and Khmer key officials from Khmer inhabited localities in Tra Vinh. He urged them to focus on the training of Khmer officials.
