The Embassy of Vietnam in Indonesia hosted a seminar on Feb. 3 to celebrate the 80th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

A large number of diplomats and staff of the embassy, Vietnam ’s Permanent Mission to ASEAN, and other Vietnamese representative agencies, attended the event.

Envoy Ha Hong Hai, Secretary of the embassy’s Party cell, highlighted the historic milestones the Vietnamese nation has achieved during the past 80 years under the sound leadership of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh.

The Party led the people to victory in the August Revolution in order to found the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and defeat foreign aggressors to protect the country’s national independence and unification.

The renewal process, which was initiated by the Party in 1986, has helped the Vietnamese revolution overcome various major challenges, and create a new image and international position for Vietnam in its pursuit of the goal of “a rich people, a strong country, and a just, democratic and civilised society”, and ensure stable economic growth rates of between 7-8 percent for 22 years.

In the past two years, when the world plunged into a global financial crisis, the Party instructed the implementation of both macro and micro measures to curb its impact on the national economy, Hai stressed.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia Nguyen Huu Dung shared this view, saying that the achievements gained proved that the CPV has not only been a representative of the working class, but also the entire Vietnamese nation.

The diplomat took this occasion to call on the staff members of Vietnam’s representative agencies in Indonesia to do their utmost to contribute to the important events taking place during 2010./.