Vietnam's Deputy Ambassador to the United States Nguyen Tien Minh on Tuesday asked US authorities to take immediate steps to ensure security for Vietnamese students, Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported.
Representatives from the Vietnamese embassy and the Bureau of Consular Affairs under the US Department of State met immmediatyly after an attack against Vietnamese secondary school students in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania State, injured seven of them but did not received timely interference from local authorities.
Minh asked the US authorities to launch an investigation on the case as soon as possible and hand down due punishments on criminals involved in the violence against Vietnamese students in Philadelphia.
He demanded immediate measures to be taken by schools where there are Vietnamese students to protect them from violence.
Minh told VNA that "the Vietnamese embassy in the US is closely following the developments of the case and will take necessary steps to protect Vietnamese citizens living and studying in the US".
Source: dtinews.vn