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Exhibition highlights VN’s diplomatic efforts at Geneva Conference

About 200 photos, objects and materials featuring the 1954 Geneva Conference are on display at an exhibition opened on July 21 in Hanoi.
About 200 photos, objects and materials featuring the 1954 GenevaConference are on display at an exhibition opened on July 21 in Hanoi.

The exhibition depicts the efforts of the Vietnamese nascentdiplomatic sector 60 years ago in the struggle to gain liberation forVietnamese people.

At the conference, the Geneva Agreementwas signed to end the war and restore peace in Indochina, includingVietnam, marking a great success of Vietnam’s diplomacy.

Theagreement affirmed Vietnamese people’s desire for peace, nationalindependence, sovereignty, unification and territorial integrity.

Theconference left valuable lessons, especially those on considering thenational interests as the most important goal and the highest principlein external affairs.

The exhibition will run til late August.-VNA
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