Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan speaks at the event. (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – A video meeting was held on May19 by the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Russia’s Saint Petersburg administrationand the Embassy of Vietnam in Russia to mark President Ho Chi Minh’s 130th birthday (May 19).
The event also aimed to celebrate the 70th founding anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
In his opening remarks, Governor of Saint Petersburg BeglovAlexander recalled the visit of President Ho Chi Minh to Petrograd (SaintPetersburg today) in 1923, marking a new milestone in Vietnam’s struggle forindependence. Events paying tribute to the Vietnamese national hero have been organisedin the city on May 19 every year since 2018, he said.
He expressed his pride for Saint Petersburg to play acrucial part in the Vietnam-Russia relations that have been built onthe long-standing friendship and mutual assistance, saying the ties between SaintPetersburg and HCM City are growing strongly in the fields of economy,education, tourism and youth cooperation.
Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen ThienNhan, for his part, said learning from Marxism-Leninism and October Revolutionand with the help of the former Soviet Union (Russia today), Nguyen Ai Quoc, an alias of President Ho Chi Minh, had found the way to free Vietnamese people from the feudal regime and French colonists,win the resistance war against the US and reunite the country.
He affirmed that Vietnamese leaders and people alwaysremembered Russia’s support for the country’s struggle for independence andnational reconstruction.
Vietnam wants to lift the friendship and bilateral comprehensivestrategic partnership with Russia to a new height, he said, adding that HCMCity and its people will do their utmost to strengthen ties with SaintPetersburg to contribute to the two countries’ relations.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Ngo Duc Manh and RussianConsul General in HCM City Aleksey Popov also delivered remarks highlightingthe role of President Ho Chi Minh in nurturing the bilateral relationship aswell as directions for the bilateral ties to expand further in the future./.
VNA
