A Vietnamese delegation headed by Fisheries Deputy Minister Nguyen Viet Thang attended the 27^th session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) held recently in Rome.

The biennial meeting drew 600 delegates from COFI-member countries, and scientists across the world.

The Vietnamese delegation called on the international community to help build a tsunami warning system and improve capacity for fisheries officials in developing countries located in the high-risk tsunami areas.

The Vietnamese delegation and other delegations from the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) put forward a proposal to establish a sub-committee on small-scale fisheries with the aim of attracting FAO and international assistance to small-scale fisheries and deprived fishermen's communities in developing countries.