VNA General Director Vu Viet Trang speaks at the opening ceremony. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – A virtual photo exhibition entitled‘Vietnam - India: 50 years of cooperation’ began on January 7.
The event is in celebration of the 50th founding anniversaryof the Vietnam - India diplomatic ties (January 7, 1972 - 2022) and five yearssince the establishment of the two countries' Comprehensive StrategicPartnership (September 2016 - 2021).
Held by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) together with theEmbassy of India in Vietnam and the Vietnam - India Friendship Association, theexhibition can be viewed at https://link.gov.vn/TLAVNAD (in Vietnamese) andhttps://link.gov.vn/PICVNAD (in English) until January 11.
In her opening remarks, VNA General Director Vu Viet Trangemphasised that amid complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is hardfor many activities to take place on a large scale.
"The VNA and the co-organisers wish to highlight the historiclandmarks in the traditional and long-standing friendship between the twocountries, as well as the profound sentiment and sharing that the countries’peoples have given to each other over the last five decades," she added.
Vietnam and India boast a long-standing friendship. Thefoundation of their friendship was set up by the two preeminent leaders -President Ho Chi Minh and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Through ups anddowns in history, the sound traditional friendship between Vietnam and Indiahas always been nurtured, consolidated, and developed to a new level bygenerations of the two countries’ leaders and people in the interests of bothsides, and it has been developing well across all fields.
Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Pranay Vermah speaks at the event. (Photo: VNA)For his part, Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Pranay Verma thanked the VNA for sharing some rare pictures from its archives tocommemorate the 50th founding anniversary of diplomatic ties.
He said the photo exhibition offers a glimpse of someprecious historical moments in the India-Vietnam relations and captures thedepth of the bilateral ties and close friendship.
The common values and interests, along with the deep mutualtrust and understanding, have turned Vietnam into an important partner of Indiain terms of bilateral, regional, and global cooperation, the diplomat continued.
He expressed his belief that the close friendship betweenthe two peoples will become increasingly strong and the Vietnam - Indiarelations will reach new levels.
The display features 50 black-and-white and colour archivephotos which truthfully and vividly reflect the increasingly strong solidarity,friendship, and cooperation between the peoples of Vietnam and India.
The photos by the VNA introduce to the public touching momentsof bilateral ties, from President Ho Chi Minh’s warm reception for PrimeMinister Jawaharlal Nehru during the latter’s visit to Vietnam (on October 17,1954) to the presence of both President Prasat and Prime Minister JawaharlalNehru at New Delhi airport to welcome President Ho Chi Minh, the warmwelcome by New Delhi people for the Vietnamese leader during his India visit inFebruary 1958, along with an image of Hanoians lining the street to welcomeIndian President Prasat to Vietnam on March 22, 1959.
Visitors can get a look at important milestones in the twocountries’ relations, including thesigning ceremony of the Joint Declaration on the Framework of ComprehensiveCooperation between Vietnam and India as they enter the 21st Century; the elevationof bilateral ties to a Strategic Partnership and then to a ComprehensiveStrategic Partnership; Indian President Ram Nath Kovind’s attendance in thesixth session of the 14th National Assembly of Vietnam; as well as activitiesin economic and defence cooperation, people-to-people diplomacy, and mutualsupport and assistance in the combat against the COVID-19 pandemic./.
