HCM City(VNA) – A photo exhibition on the 1st National Assembly (NA)delegation’s friendship visit to France in 1946 is scheduled for March 18-24 onNguyen Van Binh Book Street in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, reported Sai GonGiai phong newspaper.
Organised by theNational Archives of Vietnam and the NA’s information-office department, theexhibition will feature 150 photos on the visit that lasted from April 16 toMay 23, 1946.
The trip was madeat the invitation of the French Republic’s National Assembly. It was the first diplomaticactivity overseas of the first legislature of the then Democratic Republic ofVietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam).
Led by then deputyhead of the NA Standing Committee Pham Van Dong, the visit was an importantdiplomatic activity in search of peace at a time when the country was on thebrink of war.-VNA