The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) held a ceremony on May 4 to honour war veterans who joined Dien Bien Phu campaign on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu victory (May 7).
HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City Union ofFriendship Organisations (HUFO) held a ceremony on May 4 to honour war veteranswho joined Dien Bien Phu campaign on the occasion of the 65th anniversaryof Dien Bien Phu victory (May 7).
Speaking at the event, HUFO Vice President and GeneralSecretary Nguyen Van Manh said under the command of General Vo Nguyen Giap, theVietnam People’s Army won the Dien Bien Phu historical victory on May 7, 1954,making important contributions to ending the Indochina war with the signing ofGeneva Agreement on July 20, 1954, thus restoring peace in Vietnam, Laos andCambodia.
The Vietnamese nation always remembers those who madededication to that world-shaking victory, he said.
During the nine-year resistance war, the Vietnamese peopleand army received invaluable material and spiritual support from Lao, Chineseand Russian peoples in the fight for national defence and reunification,winning the ultimate triumph on April 30, 1975. It was an important foundationto lift ties with Laos, China and Russia to a greater height for the sake ofpeace, development and prosperity of each nation in the future, he added.
The ceremony was also meant to educate younger generationsabout the revolutionary tradition of the nation.
War veterans also joined an exchange with students to sharetheir memories of the struggle against French colonialists.-VNA
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At the event (Photo: VNA) 
