Ambassador Dinh Toan Thang thanked the municipal authorities for helping organise the ceremony and appreciated the city's contributions to the development of the friendship andcooperation between Vietnam and France.
Montreau Deputy Mayor Florian Vigneron affirmed thatPresident Ho Chi Minh is not only a friend of the French people, but also aparticularly important figure for the French Communist Party. He stressed theclose friendship between Montreau and Vietnamese localities, and sympathised withthe Vietnamese people about the difficulties in the fight against the COVID-19pandemic.
On September 2, the Vietnamese Embassy and representative officesin Singapore laid flowers at the monument of President HoChi Minh in the Asian Civilisations Museum's premises./.