(VNA): The Government has always attached importance to and ensured the right to religious freedoms which are stated in the Ordinance on Beliefs and Religion, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan at a new year meeting with a Buddhist delegation in Hanoi on February 4. 

The Deputy PM praised the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)'s contributions to strengthening the national great unity as well as the monks and nuns' contributions to the revolution in the past and the "doi moi" (renewal) at present. 

Most Venerable Thich Thanh Tu, Vice Chairman of the VBS Executive Council, expressed his thanks to the Party and the Government for their creation of favourable conditions for the VBS and its followers to practice their religion./.