The Netherlands to assist Vietnam in sand mining


Dang Quoc Khanh (right) and Mark Harbers at the meeting in Hanoi on March 18. — Vietnam News

HANOI: Natural Resources and Environment Minister Dang Quoc Khanh on March 18 had a working session with visiting Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Mark Harbers, who expressed his country’s readiness to assist Vietnam in offshore sand mining, groundwater management and mineral exploitation.

Harbers spoke highly of the active moves by the Vietnamese of Natural Resources and Environment Ministry (MoNRE) to protect the environment, especially nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation.

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