The Vietnamese Embassy in Greece
opened in Athens on December 16, 2010.

The embassy officials met with representatives of the
Vietnam-Greece Friendship Association and nearly 30 overseas Vietnamese in
Athens on December 31 on the occasion of the New Year.

At the meeting, Charge D’Affairs Vu Bien announced the
decision to establish the Vietnamese Embassy in Greece of the Vietnamese
government.

Binh said that the embassy officially opened on December
16, 2010 and has carried out some activities in Greece and set up relations with
the diplomatic corps in Athens.

Binh informed the Vietnamese in Athens of Vietnam’s
policies for overseas Vietnamese and confirmed that one of the key tasks of the
embassy is protecting Vietnamese citizens in Greece.

Nguyen Trung Thanh, chair of the Vietnam-Greece Friendship
Association said that this is good news for the community of Vietnamese in
Greece.

The Vietnam-Greece Friendship Association was set up in
2008. Its members are Vietnamese in Greece and some Greek people who love
Vietnam, including Kostas Sarantidis, who is about to be naturalized into
Vietnamese, named Nguyen Van Lap.

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