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Prague (VNA) - Vietnam continues to be
one of the fastest growing economies in the world, said David Jarkulisch, a diplomat from the
While the world economy plunged into a deep
recession as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic last year, Vietnam was one of
the few countries to record positive GDP growth, he said in an article recently
published on the website of the
The article highlighted that Vietnam’s economic growth rate reached a remarkable
2.9 percent last year, adding that continued GDP growth has turned Vietnam into the fourth largest economy in Southeast Asia, with nominal GDP of 340
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs is due to open a new Czech Consulate General in the UK city of Peterborough in connection with Britain s departure from the EU, Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček told Czech Television on Wednesday.
The consulate will be headed by former Czech Roma police officer Petr Torák who received the Order of the British Empire a few years ago for his service for the Roma community. The Ministry is now waiting for the approval of the British authorities.
Mr Torák is currently in charge of a charity organisation COMPAS in Peterborough, which is helping local Czech and Slovak communities. Nearly 49,000 Czech citizens have so far applied for resident status in the UK. Of the 46,410 applications that had been dealt with at the end of November, some 31,240 Czechs had received settled status, while 13,560 had been granted pre-settled status.
The Czech Development Agency was set up in 2008, under the Czech Foreign Affairs Ministry, with the aim to help eradicate poverty in the world and contribute to sustainable development. Where is it helping today, how are the countries for development cooperation selected and how has the coronavirus crisis impacted its work? Those are just some of the questions I discussed with the head of the agency Jan Slíva.
Czech Aid in Zambia, photo: Archive of the Czech Development Agency
“Czech Aid is active in six so-called priority countries, and those are Bosnia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Moldova, and Zambia. These are the priority countries of the Czech Republic’s Development Cooperation Strategy, a list which was put together by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is valid through 2023. The countries have been selected on a number of criteria. First, we wanted to cover both the low- and middle-income brackets. So, we have three so-called least-developed countries: Cambodia,