Two CPP affiliates participate in Communist Vietnam Fatherland Front congress

Fatherland Front holds congress

09/28/2009
VOV News (Hanoi)

The seventh national congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) opened at the International Convention Centre in Hanoi on September 28, with the participation of Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and other high-ranking leaders of the Party and State.

The VFF committees from across the country, at both central and local levels, will gather together for the first time.

The congress aims to enhance the role of the VFF, promote democracy, improve social consensus, build national solidarity to keep the nation strong, and enable prosperity for the people in a just, democratic and civilized society.

Approximately 1,300 delegates will join the convention, 989 of whom are official delegates from VFF committees nationwide.

The oldest participant will be 92-year-old Venerable Thich Pho Tue from the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, while the youngest will be 19-year-old Vu Thi Xua, an ethnic minority delegate from the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

The three-day congress will be attended by delegates from the China People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Lao Front for National Construction, the Cambodian Front for National Construction, the Cambodian Front for National Solidarity and Development, the Cuban Revolutionary Protection Committee and representatives from foreign embassies in Vietnam and domestic and international non-governmental organisations.

Pledge of traditional ties with VN: Like the one reneged by Pham Van Dong to King-Father in the 80s?

Vietnam and Cambodia make pledges on traditional ties

April 25, 2008
VNA (Hanoi)

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Huynh Dam had a series of high level meetings with Cambodian dignitaries on April 24 as part of his four-day visit to Phnom Penh.

The most notable meeting was with King Norodom Sihamoni.

Dam also paid courtesy visits to President of the Senate and President of the People’s Party Chea Sim, Prime Minister Hunsen and Head of the Cambodian Buddhist Sangha, Great Most Venerable Tep Vong.

During the meetings, King Sihamoni and Cambodian leaders expressed gratitude to Vietnam for its assistance in overthrowing the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime in the past as well as the current national reconstruction.

The hosts also expressed their desire to facilitate ties between the United Front for Construction and Development of Cambodia (UFCDK) and the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

All parties agreed joint efforts should be made to encourage people from the two countries to strengthen cooperation and promote traditional solidarity in the interest of the two nations and for peace and stability in the region and the world.

VFF President Huynh Dam thanked the King and other Cambodian dignitaries for the Cambodian people’s support in Vietnam’s struggle for national liberation and reunification as well as the current national construction and defence.

“The Vietnamese people always respect friendship with Cambodian people and work towards a much better relationship, which has stood the test of time, in the future,” concluded the VFF leader.

The Vietnamese delegation is scheduled to leave Phnom Penh for home on April 26.

Vietnam orders the re-establishment of Cambodia-VN friendship organizations in "all provinces and cities" not just along the borders anymore

08/08/2007
Cambodia-VN friendship organisations to come back

Cambodia will re-establish Cambodia-Vietnam friendship organisations in all of its provinces and cities, said an official from the United Front for National Construction and Defence of Cambodia (UFCDK).

The news was delivered at a meeting in Phnom Penh on August 7 between the UFCDK Vice President Min Khin and Tran Thanh Long, Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) and President of the VFF’s Ho Chi Minh City chapter.

Min Khin said the one-year-old UFCDK has established its chapters in all 24 provinces and cities in the country.

Recently, the UFCDK’s branches in localities sharing borders with Vietnam such as Kratie, Mondonkiri, Kongpong Cham provinces have built close relations with VFF chapters in neighbouring Vietnamese provinces.

The two officials agreed to intensify the cooperation between the UFCOK and the VFF in the future.

Visiting Cambodia from August 4-7, Long and his delegation also met with the Overseas Vietnamese Association in Cambodia, and handed over financing from the HCM City VFF branch to be used to build five houses for disadvantaged Vietnamese residing in Cambodia.

Source: VNA