Standing Deputy PM urges creating sustainable livelihoods for ethnic minorities
Standing Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on January 19 emphasised socio-economic infrastructure development, the building of value chains and the transfer of technologies to create sustainable livelihoods for ethnic minority groups.
Hanoi (VNA) – Standing Deputy Prime Minister PhamBinh Minh on January 19 emphasised socio-economic infrastructure development,the building of value chains and the transfer of technologies to createsustainable livelihoods for ethnic minority groups.
Addressing a meeting of the Committee for EthnicMinority Affairs, Minh said it is a must to keep a close watch on the situation in mountainousand ethnic minority-inhabited areas, especially natural disasters and diseases thereand “security hotspots”.
He requested that the committee, relevant agencies and local authorities effectively roll out the strategy on ethnic affairs in 2021-2030 with avision towards 2045, the master scheme and the national target programme onsocio-economic development in mountainous and ethnic minority-inhabited areasin 2021-2030.
Deputy PM Minh also ordered promoting legal popularisation, expanding international cooperation in ethnic affairsto attract foreign investment in the regions, and continuing with people-to-peoplediplomacy.
He reiterated the importance of policies on ethnic affairs and affirmed that over the past years, the Vietnamese Party and Statehave issued many guidelines and policies on ethnic affairs, which have coveredall sectors and regions, helping to raise living standards of ethnic minorities.
In his remarks, Chairman of the committee Hau A Lenh saidthe ethnic affairs work has received the due attention of the Government andthe Prime Minister, the effective coordination between ministries, agencies andlocalities, and the supervision of the National Assembly’s Committee for EthnicAffairs.
In 2022, the committee will focus on building projectsand policies, and step the ethnic affairs work in the new situation, he said./.
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