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President Ho Chi Minh held dear by Vietnamese expatriates, diplomat

The administration of the Thai province of Nakhon Phanom and the Vietnamese-Thai People Association in the province held a ceremony on May 19 to mark the 133rd birth anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh.
President Ho Chi Minh held dear by Vietnamese expatriates, diplomat ảnh 1Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Phan Chi Thanh addresses the ceremony in Nakhon Phanom province on May 19. (Photo: VNA)
Bangkok (VNA) – The administration of theThai province of Nakhon Phanom and the Vietnamese-Thai People Association inthe province held a ceremony on May 19 to mark the 133rd birth anniversaryof late President Ho Chi Minh.

Addressing the event, held at the Thailand - VietnamFriendship Village in Nong Yat commune of Mueang district, VietnameseAmbassador to Thailand Phan Chi Thanh described President Ho Chi Minh as abright example of patriotism, revolutionary ethics, national solidarity,wisdom, and humanism, adding the late leader was an excellent internationalsoldier and a brilliant activist of the world’s national liberation andrevolutionary movements.

Thanh said the Thailand - Vietnam FriendshipVillage and the memorial site of President Ho Chi Minh in Nakhon Phanom, alongwith other relic sites dedicated to him in some Thai localities, are symbols ofthe two countries’ friendship and cooperation and will forever be valuable heritageof both nations.

For his part, Wanchai Janporn, Governor of NakhonPhanom, said it was his province’s honour to be one of the Thai places wherethe late leader of Vietnam lived and worked in 1928 and 1929 on his path toseek ways for liberating the homeland.

President Ho Chi Minh laid the “first brick” forbuilding the foundation of the two countries’ relations, he noted, adding thatthe leader’s 133rd birth anniversary is a good occasion for the twopeoples to review the achievements during the 47-year diplomatic ties between Vietnamand Thailand.

President Ho Chi Minh held dear by Vietnamese expatriates, diplomat ảnh 2Consul General of Vietnam in Hong Kong Pham Binh Dam (Photo: VNA)
Also on this occasion, Pham Binh Dam, Consul Generalof Vietnam in Hong Kong (China), shared his thought with Vietnam News Agency correspondentsabout President Ho Chi Minh’s revolutionary activities in Hong Kong over 90years ago.

Dam said that to those working in the diplomaticsector, President Ho Chi Minh was a skillful diplomat and also the creator of theunique and comprehensive sect of Ho Chi Minh diplomacy with strategic visionand reformed ideology.

Today’s diplomats should always keep in mind andfollow the leader’s teachings, including the need for each individual and the wholesector to exert efforts to study so that diplomacy can meet the country’sdemand, because the President himself was an example of the fondness forlearning, the Consul General said.

He perceived that practicing such concrete, simplebut also profound teachings of President Ho Chi Minh is a pragmatic step tostudy and following the leader’s ideology, moral example, and style, thereby contributingto national development and safeguarding./.
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