UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay speaks at the ceremony (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A ceremony washeld in Hanoi on September 6 to mark 35 years of the UNESCO Resolution 24C/18.65, which honours President Ho Chi Minh as aHero of National Liberation and a Great Man of Culture of Vietnam.
The ceremony was heldin both virtual and in-person forms, with the attendance of Politburo memberand Standing Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh, Vice President Vo Thi AnhXuan, visiting UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay, along with delegates from Vietnamese ministries,agencies, organisations and foreign agencies and organisations in Vietnam.
In his remarks, Standing Deputy PM Minh recalled that the 24th General Conference of UNESCO in 1987 adopted resolution 24C/18.65 which recommended that members celebrate the 100th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh. The resolution describedHo Chi Minh as “an outstandingsymbol of national affirmation, who devoted his whole life to the nationalliberation of the Vietnamese people, contributing to the common struggle ofpeoples for peace, national independence, democracy and social progress.”
For the Vietnamese nation, President Ho ChiMinh is a genius leader and a hero of national liberation, a great teacher ofthe Vietnamese revolution, an outstanding diplomat and the inspiration for theconfidence in the victory of the struggle for national independence and people’sprosperity, he stressed.
Minh went on to say that for people in the world, the President is a close and loyalfriend, a symbol of the aspiration for peace and the struggle against oppressionand inequity, and an emissary of peace, solidarity, friendship, cooperationamong nations.
The UNESCO Director General said a great legacy of President HoChi Minh is his vision on education for all people, and ininheriting and developing this legacy, UNESCO is cooperating effectively withVietnam in preserving and upholding the value of national cultural identity.
She re-affirmed that UNESCO will continue to cooperate with Vietnam in the timeahead.
Onthe occasion, a bilingual book on people in the world and President Ho Chi Minhmade its debut.
Delegates to the ceremony visited a photo and book exhibition onthe late President and the Ho Chi Minh relic site at the Presidential Palace inHanoi.
Thesame day, an international seminar on Ho Chi Minh’s legacy with humankind tookplace in both virtual and in-person forms.
Vietnamese and foreign scholars and researchers shared the view that thePresident’s legacy has timeless value and should be spread and passed downgenerations./.
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