By 8 am this morning (Wednesday) the last group of 209 workers from
Libya
returned home safely.
Flight VN 8686, carrying workers and Vice Foreign Minister Doan Xuan Hung from
Tunisia
, landed at
Noi
Bai
International
Airport
. The flight will be the tenth and last of the largest ever “air bridge” launched by the national flag carrier,
Vietnam
Airlines, to transport Vietnamese workers in
Libya
home.
Those Vietnamese workers, accompanied by the governmental inter-branch working team in
Tunisia
, were welcomed and handed flowers at the airport by Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.
Speaking at the ceremony, Ms Ngan informed that so far as many as 10,000 Vietnamese guest workers had escaped from political chaos in
Libya
. According to Ms Ngan, the Japanese Hamanasu ship carrying more than 1,000 Vietnamese workers aboard, which left the
port
of
Benghazi
in
Libya
on March 3, was expected to dock at Hai Phong port on March 21. Apart form this, some other 292 Vietnamese workers in
Algeria
and 67 in
Egypt
are currently on other commercial flights heading home, she said.
She also announced a good news thatKhang Thong group of companies (Long An province) are willing to hire all 10,000 workers returning from
Libya
to work in the project “Happy land”.
Labor Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said that the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs would help to find new employment in a foreign country for the workers who returned from Libya and want to work abroad.