Bamboo Airways ready to repatriate Vietnamese people from Ukraine

PSNews - Bamboo Airways on March 1 sent a document to the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam regarding its plans to bring home Vietnamese citizens from Ukraine if it gets the green light from authorities.

According to a representative of Bamboo Airways, preparations are underway following the Prime Minister’s February 26 telegram on the protection of Vietnamese citizens and legal entities in Ukraine where growing armed conflicts are occurring,

In detail, Bamboo Airways announced the 7 flight routes from Hanoi to Europe's destinations including: Prague (Czech), Bucharest (Rumania), Warsaw (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia), Moscow (Russia) and Minsk (Belarus).

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One of Vietnam’s top concerns is to ensure the highest security and safety for Vietnamese citizens and legal entities in Ukraine. The Prime Minister directed relevant ministries and agencies to carefully prepare necessary options, including repatriating home Vietnamese people and family members from Ukraine. He reminded the Ministry of Transport to direct airlines to prepare such a repatriation plan.

Currently, Vietnamese airlines operating flights to Europe have all avoided the airspace of Ukraine and Belarus when tensions are growing between Russia and Ukraine.

On the same day, Le Thi Thu Hang, Spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), made the remark on March 1 in response to reporters’ question about Viet Nam’s reaction to the tensions in Ukraine and moves to protect its citizens there.

Accordingly, MOFA has been working with relevant authorities, domestic airlines, and representative agencies in Ukraine and surrounding areas to make plans for ensuring security, safety, and conditions necessary for evacuating Vietnamese citizens from war zones and repatriating them if they wish.

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MoFA Spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang.

MoFA Spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang made the remark on March 1 in response to reporters’ question about Viet Nam’s reaction to the tensions in Ukraine and moves to protect its citizens there.

She noted that Viet Nam has paid close attention to and kept a close watch on the developments in Ukraine, as well as the situation of Vietnamese people in this country. There are about 7,000 Vietnamese people in Ukraine at present, and they have not suffered from any damage.

Prioritising the ultimate safety of the lives, property, and legal and legitimate interests of Vietnamese citizens and legal entities in Ukraine, since tense developments began, the MoFA has promptly moved to protect citizens.

The ministry has directed the Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine to keep frequent contact with the Vietnamese community there, operate hotlines around the clock so as to receive information and provide timely support, ask the host country’s authorised agencies to assist and ensure safety for Vietnamese citizens and businesses, and coordinate with agencies in Viet Nam to have citizen protection plans ready, according to Hang.

She added the MoFA and the embassy have also issued recommendations and safety guidance for the overseas Vietnamese. The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs set up a communication channel with Vietnamese associations in Ukraine to stay updated on their situation and give them safety guidance while requesting associations in nearby countries to prepare for helping Vietnamese people in Ukraine.

Viet Nam’s representative agencies in Poland, Russia, Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia have been ordered to keep the citizen protection hotlines available; liaise with the host countries’ agencies to update information about the Vietnamese coming from Ukraine; ask for the facilitation of Vietnamese people’s entry, transit, and temporary stay; provide evacuated Vietnamese with essential goods; and coordinate with Vietnamese associations to aid the evacuation.

The MoFA has also asked authorities of the relevant parties to create a “safe corridor” for Vietnamese people to evacuate, the spokeswoman went on, saying that Viet Nam has called on agencies of the United Nations and the host countries to help provide the conditions necessary for citizen safety and evacuation.

As of March 1 noon, about 200 Vietnamese were helped to move out of war zones. The Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine is continuing to gather the citizens’ needs in order to carry out appropriate plans, Hang added.

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