Hanoi (VNA) – State President Luong Cuong and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka visited the President Ho Chi Minh Relic Site in the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on May 5 morning within the framework of the latter’s state visit to Vietnam.
The President Ho Chi Minh Relic Site in the Presidential Palace is a particularly important national historical and cultural relic, where President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked for the last 15 years of his life (from December 1954 to September 2, 1969) with many relics, documents, and original artifacts associated with his life and career. These are evidence of thought, style, morality, lifestyle, and dedication of great President Ho Chi Minh to the revolutionary cause of the Vietnamese people. This place not only preserves the ideological values, ethics, simple and noble lifestyle of President Ho Chi Minh but also becomes a vivid symbol, an important "destination" for high-level diplomatic relations between Vietnam and countries around the world.
The two Presidents visited relics associated with the life and career of President Ho Chi Minh such as the stilt house and the fish pond, admiring the bronze statue "Uncle Ho sits to work in the flower garden of the Presidential Palace" and artifacts preserving many memories of the late leader.
Sharing with the President of Sri Lanka about the life and career of President Ho Chi Minh, President Cuong affirmed that he was the most beautiful symbol of patriotism and revolutionary heroism of Vietnam, the shining crystallization of morality, intelligence, spirit, and conscience of the nation and the era. At the same time, he devoted his entire life to the glorious revolutionary cause of the Party and the Vietnamese people.
![sri-lanka-president-1-vna.jpg](https://mediaen.vietnamplus.vn/images/790ffb7916bf348155e2236b4070dfe447ad7f81d43e051ded0b696a9e924d8ad90b30170fd64faedb90dc5b0de11bfd87e843666c0b2381cdca6ec94e1f3ad3/sri-lanka-president-1-vna.jpg "State President Luong Cuong (R) and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka pose for a photo near the bronze statue "Uncle Ho sits to work in the flower garden of the Presidential Palace". (Photo: VNA)")
The Sri Lankan leader also heard about the history of Uncle Ho's Stilt House, built in the style of stilt houses of ethnic minorities in Viet Bac, the place where President Ho Chi Minh lived during the nine years of the resistance war against the French colonialists. Uncle Ho moved to live and work in this house from 1958 to 1969 and here, he thought day and night to complete the strategic guidelines and policies for the Vietnamese revolution, and together with the Politburo, continuing to lead the people to overcome difficulties and challenges. It was also the place where he regularly received international delegations. The documents and artifacts displayed here fully, clearly and truthfully depict the life, thought, ethics and working style of a leader who devoted himself to the country, the people, and the cause of peace, friendship and progress of the peoples of the world.
During his lifetime, Uncle Ho was a person who loved nature very much and that is shown through the system of outdoor relics such as mango paths, the fish pond, gardens, coconut trees in front of the stilt house, southern milk fruit trees, persistent banyan trees, and flower trellis of the Presidential Palace. This is a harmonious element in the overall relic site, contributing to creating a unique value for the Presidential Palace Relic Site.
Moved by the simple but meaningful space, reflecting the pure, humble lifestyle and great thought of the late leader, President Dissanayaka expressed his respect and admiration for President Ho Chi Minh, who inspired the movement for independence and freedom around the world; and was proud of Sri Lanka's solidarity with Vietnam in the revolutionary struggle. He thanked the Vietnamese State and people, and President Cuong himself, for the warm and respectful reception they gave him and the Syrian delegation during their visit to Vietnam.
The visit to the Presidential Palace Relic Site by President Cuong and President Dissanayaka once again affirmed that Ho Chi Minh's cultural values will continue to be a bridge for the close relationship between Vietnam and Sri Lanka to develop strongly in many fields./.
