President encourages Vietnam-US cultural exchange
State President Nguyen Minh Triet has encouraged the William Joiner Centre under the US University of Massachusetts to introduce Vietnam’s culture and literature to the American public to strengthen bilateral friendship.
Receiving Kevin Bowen in Hanoi on June 1, Mr Triet expressed his hope that more Vietnamese literature will be published in the US, and more cultural exchanges between Vietnam and the US will be conducted in the future.
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President Triet (fifth from left) and Vietnamese and American writers |
He thanked the US centre for introducing Vietnam’s classical and revolutionary literature to Americans over the past decades, which he said helped Americans to understand Vietnam’s culture much better.
He acknowledged the efforts made by researchers of Vietnamese culture and history and experts from the centre who have worked together to promote Vietnamese literature and culture in the US, helping normalise relations between the two countries.
Bowen said all the writers at the centre love Vietnam and its people, and hoped that exchanges between the two countries’ writers would be conducted more frequently in the future.
Over the past decades, Kevin Bowen and his centre have invited Vietnamese writers, poets and researchers to the US to talk about their country, people and policies to strengthen friendship and cooperation with the US and other countries. They have also received many delegations of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin and called on Americans of conscience to support the victims.