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Top leader attends inauguration of memorial plaque honouring President Ho Chi Minh in French city

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam on October 6 attended the inauguration of a memorial plaque honouring President Ho Chi Minh, a national liberation hero and an outstanding cultural figure of Vietnam, in France's Sainte-Adresse city.

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam and Sainte-Adresse Mayor Hubert Dejean de la Batie lay flowers at the memorial plaque honouring President Ho Chi Minh in Sainte-Adresse city on October 6. (Photo: VNA)
Party General Secretary and State President To Lam and Sainte-Adresse Mayor Hubert Dejean de la Batie lay flowers at the memorial plaque honouring President Ho Chi Minh in Sainte-Adresse city on October 6. (Photo: VNA)

Paris (VNA) - Party General Secretary and State President To Lam on October 6 attended the inauguration of a memorial plaque honouring President Ho Chi Minh, a national liberation hero and an outstanding cultural figure of Vietnam, in France's Sainte-Adresse city.

It is placed in the city's Masquelier Place, in front of the house that President Ho Chi Minh used to live in, which is now used as a place to organise community activities of the city. The commemorative plaque is engraved with French and Vietnamese words saying that from 1911-1912, President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked in the city of Sainte-Adresse in the Masquelier area on his long journey for the future of Vietnam.

Addressing the event, Lam highly valued the city's consideration of this plaque as a heritage site, and thanked French people, loyal friends of Vietnam, who have always strived to preserve historical sites that mark President Ho Chi Minh's journey to find a way to savage the country.

He highlighted that President Ho Chi Minh, a shining example of Vietnamese people's spirit and characteristics, a UNESCO-recognised Hero of National Liberation and a Great Man of Culture of Vietnam and the world, left a precious heritage belonging to the common memory that all have the responsibility to honour and preserve.

The newly-inaugurated plaque will become a place of remembrance for Vietnamese people as well as for all peoples who strive for peace and independence. This is also one of the pieces of evidence that link the historical relationship between Vietnam and France, said the Vietnamese top leader, highlighting the growing relations between the two countries through the ups and downs in the history and the contributions by President Ho Chi Minh to the development of this ties.

He said he hopes Sainte-Adresse will conduct more exchange and cooperation activities with Vietnamese cities, contributing to strengthening bilateral multifaceted cooperation at all levels, and enhancing people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries.

For his part, Sainte-Adresse Mayor Hubert Dejean de la Batie said that the memorial plaque aims to make a historical mark for not only Vietnam but also France. It contributes to expressing the sentiments, friendship, and solidarity of the people of Sainte-Adresse city in particular and French people in general towards President Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese people, he said.

Earlier, General Secretary and President Lam visited the Sainte-Adresse city hall and wrote on the memorial book there, expressing his belief that on the basis of the common history and the noble human values left by President Ho Chi Minh, the traditional ties and close cooperation between Vietnam and France in general and with the city of Sainte-Adresse in particular will be increasingly consolidated and developed./.

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