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Children & Youth Affairs Minister Frances Fitzgerald today hosted a Family Day in Farmleigh for Minister Cuong, Vietnamese Minister for Justice, and a delegation of Vietnamese officials. Minister Cuong, and senior officials from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, are visiting Ireland for the purposes of finalising and signing an administrative arrangement for intercountry adoption between Ireland and Vietnam.

Minister Fitzgerald stated:

“I am very glad to have this opportunity to bring the Vietnam delegation to Farmleigh to meet and mingle with a large number of Irish families with Vietnamese connections. Many of the children have been adopted from Vietnam and it afforded the delegation time in their busy schedule to meet these children and their families in Farmleigh.

Minister Fitzgerald stated the emphasis of the visit is the finalisation of the Administrative Agreement which will copper fasten the intercountry adoption relationship between the central authorities for adoption of Ireland and Vietnam.

Read the full press release here.