Fernando is among the international delegates travelling toVietnam to attend the 22nd Assembly of the World Peace Council (WPC).
Paying tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum inHanoi capital city with other delegates, Fernando said that the late Vietnameseleader has left an imprint in the modern history of not only Vietnam but alsothe whole world, as he devoted his life to the cause of national liberation ofthe Vietnamese people, contributing to the common struggle of the nations.
The revolutionary cause and the struggle for nationalliberation of Vietnam has always played a very important role in the worldpeace, he stressed.
On June 5, 1911, from Nha Rong Wharf of Sai Gon, now Ho Chi MinhCity, Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), known then as Nguyen Tat Thanh, boarded the ship named Admiral Latouche Treville, beginning his journey to seek ways for nationalsalvation.
Thirty years later, he returned to Vietnam to lead theVietnamese revolution which successfully conducted the August Revolution in1945 and founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republicof Vietnam./.