Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to a draft protocol between the Vietnamese and Luxembourg Governments concerning a project on local development and adaptation to climate change impact in central Thua Thien-Hue province. Accordingly, the Vietnamese Government has assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment to ink the protocol with the Luxembourg side. The project, worth a total of EUR10 million ($13.7 million) with EUR8 million coming from the Luxembourg Government, will be implemented in communes lying along the coast and in and around lagoons in Quang Dien, Phu Vang and Phu Loc districts. Since 1998, Luxembourg has granted a remarkable sum of non-refundable aid to the central province’s poverty reduction, health care, education and socio-economic development programs. There included a project providing equipment to the Hue Central Hospital and Hue Medical University worth EUR1 million, a EUR4.7 million project on rural development in Quang Dien district and one on the establishment of a tourism school worth nearly VND32 billion. (Vietnam News March 11)
