The Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela laid flowers at President Ho Chi Minh's statue in Simon Bolivar Boulevard in Caracas on May 19 on the occasion of his 131st birthday.
President Ho Chi Minh leads Vietnam to success in its struggle for national independence. (Photo: VNA)- The Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela laid flowers at President Ho Chi Minh's statue
in Simon Bolivar Boulevard
in Caracas on May 19 on the occasion of his
131st birthday.
Addressing the ceremony, Ambassador Le Viet Duyen highlighted milestones in
President Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary career and his great contributions to the
glorious revolutionary cause of the Vietnamese Party and people.
He emphasised that
President Ho Chi Minh devoted his whole life to the country’s struggle for Vietnam’s revolution for national liberation and
contributed to struggles of nations worldwide for peace, independence, democracy and social
progress.
Meanwhile, representatives
from the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Venezuela-Vietnam
Friendship Association expressed their admiration for President Ho Chi Minh who
led the Vietnamese revolution to achieve great victories.
Previously, an exhibition featuring documents and photos on
President Ho Chi Minh’s life and career and Vietnam’s land and people was
organised at Rómulo Gallegos University as part of activities under a project
to honour the hero of national liberation and great man of culture of Vietnam.
Ambassador
Duyen proposed working with the university to connect with the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics of Vietnam to
strengthen research cooperation activities on Ho Chi Minh Thought in the time
to come.
Meanwhile, an online workshop spotlighting President Ho Chi Minh’s great thought
was organised by the India – Vietnam Solidarity Committee in West Bengal.
Participants expressed their immense love and admiration for the Vietnamese
great leader. They also expressed solidarity and reaffirmed the traditional
friendship between Vietnam and India, especially amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
ravaging in India.
The same day, the Vietnamese Embassies in Germany,
Algeria, Chile and Mexico held ceremonies to offer flowers and incense to President
Ho Chi Minh.
President Ho Chi Minh led Vietnam to success
in its struggle for national independence. On September 2, 1945, he read the
Declaration of Independence, proclaiming to the world the foundation of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
His revolutionary career contributed to
bringing independence, freedom, and happiness to not only the Vietnamese people
but also to all oppressed peoples of the world./.