Vietnamese Ambassador to Venezuela Le Viet Duyen (third, right) and UNEFA Rector Pascualino Angiolillo at the launching ceremony (Photo: VNA) Addressing the launching ceremony, Vietnamese Ambassador to Venezuela Le Viet Duyen thanked the UNEFA for organising the event. He stressed that President Ho Chi Minh's life and revolutionary career is an epic of patriotism and revolutionary heroism.
The national leader, who devoted his whole life to the national liberation, independence freedom of the nation and happiness of people, is an example for nations that are struggling to advance to socialism, including Vietnam and Venezuela, said the ambassador.
He expressed his hope that through the research of Vietnamese nation and Ho Chi Minh ideology in all fields as well as the national struggles, Venezuelan friends will draw useful lessons to overcome hard time and build a country of peace and prosperity.
The ambassador said he believes that UNEFA will become a centre for education and research of Vietnam, helping popularise the Ho Chi Minh ideology in the Latin American region and the whole world. He pledged to accompany UNEFA in exploring Vietnam’s struggles for independence and development.
For his part, UNEFA Rector Pascualino Angiolillo said that Venezuelan people love the nation and people of Vietnam, affirming that many State officials, experts and scholars of Venezuela have the need to research on the culture, economy, politics, society, nation and people of Vietnam and learn from the country’s development model so as to apply in Venexuela.
The new faculty will initially focus on researching the history, economy and politics of Vietnam, he said, expressing his hope for support from Vietnamese agencies. He said the university plans to establish the faculty in all of its branches across the country.
Formed in 1973, UNEFA is a public university run by Venezuela’s National Bolivarian Armed Forces. This is the venue to train civil and military experts in the fields of applied science research and development. In addition to its headquarters in Caracas, UNEFA has branches in 21 states of Venezuela and is the largest university in Venezuela in terms of scale, with 110,000 students, and facilities.
An overview of the get-together in Ukraine's Odesa city (Photo: VNA) At the event, Ukrainian friends shared their stories about and sentiments for President Ho Chi Minh, and performed poems and songs about President Ho Chi Minh and the nation and people of Vietnam.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Hong Thach highly valued the idea of organising the event. He said that President Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts are still applicable today, especially his ideology through his famous saying of “nothing more precious than independence and freedom” and “solidarity, solidarity, great solidarity; success, success, great success". He thanked the organisers for holding the event, which contributes to giving local people better understanding of Vietnam, and fostering friendship between the peoples of both countries.
Also on May 19, representatives from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and the Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba, Cuban officials and friends as well as Vietnamese community in Cuba laid flowers at President Ho Chi Minh Monument at Peace Park in Havana to pay tribute to the Vietnamese leader.
An overview of the event in Havana (Photo: VNA) Meanwhile, Vice Chairman of the Cuba-Vietnam Friendship Association Fredesmán Turró Gonzále, a former Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam, said that he believes that future generations of both sides will inherit President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, thus boosting the development in peace of both countries towards socialism, and fostering the brotherhood between the two nations./.
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