General Vo Nguyen Giap (pointing to the map) and leaders of the Central Military Commission directed the Ho Chi Minh Campaign in 1975(Photo: VNA)The event, jointly organised by theMinistry of National Defence, the Party Central Committee’s Commission forInformation and Education, the Government Office and the Party Committee ofQuang Binh province (the home province of the late General), saw the participation of more than 600 delegates.President Nguyen Xuan Phuc sent flowers to the event.
Opening the conference, Sen. Lieut. GenNguyen Trong Nghia, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission forInformation and Education underlined that the over 80-year revolutionary careerof General Vo Nguyen Giap was closely linked with significant milestones of theVietnamese revolution.
An overview of the conference (Photo: VNA)With his sharp mind and strategicvision as well as rich experience, General Giap made great contributionsto the success of the country’s revolution. He is also a model of the moralityand personality of a communist, said Sen. Lieut. Gen Nghia.
Meanwhile, Defence Minister General PhanVan Giang underlined that General Giap is one of the great leader of theVietnamese revolution and an outstanding military talent who played animportant role in the formation and development of the Vietnam People’s Army. His name is associated with many victories of Vietnam in the Ho Chi Minh Era.
General Giang suggested thatparticipants focus on analyzing General Giap’s contributions to the country’s victory in the war against American imperialists and French colonialists, and clarifying General Giap’s ideology on people-based war and people-based defence as well as the Vietnamese military art.
At the same time, General Giap is also a great man of culture and a typical example on revolutionary ethics, he added.
The Defence Minister said that the outcomes ofthe conference will support the education of patriotism andnational pride among military officers and soldiers as well as the public,especially young people.
General Vo Nguyen Giap, whose realname is Vo Giap (alias Van), was born in Loc Thuy commune, Le Thuy district,the central province of Quang Binh on August 25, 1911. He passed away inHanoi on October 4, 2013 at the age of 103.
He once served as a Politburo member, Secretary of the Central MilitaryCommission, Standing Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence,Commander-in-Chief of the Vietnamese People’s Army and a National Assemblydeputy from the first to seventh tenures.
The General, whose military career starting with his appointment to lead thefirst Vietnamese revolutionary army unit with only 34 soldiers in 1944, led theVietnamese people's army from victory to victory during the resistance waragainst French colonialists and then American imperialists./.
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