On May 6, the delegation, led by Nguyen Minh Thuyet, Vice Head of the Committee for Culture, Education and Children, met with a FNC delegation, headed by Sultan Saqer al Suwaidi, who is President of the Committee for Education, Youth, Information and Culture.

Both sides briefed each other on their respective country’s situation and discussed ways of stepping up cooperation in this field.

During their stay in the UAE, the Vietnamese delegates visited various economic and cultural establishments in the capital city of Abu Dhabi and the city of Dubai, including the country’s largest university – Sharjah.

At Sharjah, they were warmly welcomed by the lecturers and students from the Faculty of Technology. They met with some female students who had come to Vietnam to help build houses for poor people in My Tho in 2009.

Both the lecturers and students at the university said they would like to set up links with Vietnamese colleges and universities.