He made the remark at a reception for 120 out of almost 430 outstanding women nationwide who are in Hanoi to attend the 2nd national emulation congress of the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU).

He said the Party, State and people always respect the role played by women in society and families, noting that women are an indispensable part of society and contributed greatly to the success of the Vietnamese revolution in the past as well as the country’s national construction and development at present.

The State leader said he hoped that women from all parts of the country will continue to study and improve their professionalism to meet new requirements in the integration period.

Agencies, mass organisations and families need to support and create more favourable conditions for women to fully promote their abilities to undertake social affairs and also take care of their families, he said.

The President asked Vietnamese women to step up emulation movements in combination with “Studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s moral example” campaign.

The VWU Central Committee and its chapters at all levels should spare no efforts to build up the national unity bloc and increase awareness of social evils and affairs, including marriage with foreign men, among local women, especially for those in isolated, mountainous and ethnic minority-inhabited areas, President Triet stressed.