Hanoi, May 13 -- Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung has signed the Prime Minister's Directive No. 19/CT-TTg, calling for stronger implementation of the Ethnic Affairs Strategy by 2030, with a vision toward 2045. The directive underscores that in recent years, the Party and State have introduced and implemented a wide range of ethnic affairs-related policies and development programmes, including the Ethnic Affairs Strategy for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2045, promulgated under Government Resolution No. 10/NQ-CP in January 2022. These efforts have contributed significantly to improving living conditions in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Both the material and spiritual well-being of ethnic minority communities have improv...