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 toVenezuela Le Viet Duyen thanked the UNEFA for organising the event. He stressedthat President Ho Chi Minh's life and revolutionary career is an epic of patriotismand revolutionary heroism.
The national leader, who devoted his whole life to thenational liberation, independence freedom of the nation and happiness ofpeople, 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 Vietnamesenation 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 builda country of peace and prosperity.
The ambassador said he believes that UNEFA will becomea centre for education and research of Vietnam, helping popularise the Ho ChiMinh ideology in the Latin American region and the whole world. He pledged toaccompany UNEFA in exploring Vietnam’s struggles for independence anddevelopment.
For his part, UNEFA Rector Pascualino Angiolillo said thatVenezuelan people love the nation and people of Vietnam, affirming that manyState officials, experts and scholars of Venezuela have the need to researchon the culture, economy, politics, society, nation and people of Vietnam andlearn from the country’s development model so as to apply in Venexuela.
The new faculty will initially focus on researching the history, economy andpolitics of Vietnam, he said, expressing his hope for support fromVietnamese agencies. He said the university plans to establish the faculty inall of its branches across the country.
Formed in 1973, UNEFA is a public university run byVenezuela’s National Bolivarian Armed Forces. This is the venue to train civiland military experts in the fields of applied science research and development.In addition to its headquarters in Caracas, UNEFA has branches in 21 states ofVenezuela and is the largest university in Venezuela in terms of scale, with110,000 students, and facilities.
An overview of the get-together in Ukraine's Odesa city (Photo: VNA) At the event, Ukrainian friends shared their stories aboutand sentiments for President Ho Chi Minh, and performed poems and songs aboutPresident Ho Chi Minh and the nation and people of Vietnam.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Hong Thach highlyvalued the idea of organising the event. He said that President Ho Chi Minh’s thoughtsare 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 thankedthe organisers for holding the event, which contributes to giving local peoplebetter understanding of Vietnam, and fostering friendship between the peoples ofboth countries.
Also on May 19, representatives from the Cuban Institute ofFriendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and the Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba, Cuban officialsand friends as well as Vietnamese community in Cuba laid flowers at PresidentHo Chi Minh Monument at Peace Park in Havana to pay tribute to the Vietnameseleader.
An overview of the event in Havana (Photo: VNA) Meanwhile, Vice Chairman of the Cuba-Vietnam FriendshipAssociation Fredesmán Turró Gonzále, a former Cuban Ambassador toVietnam, said that he believes that future generations of both sides willinherit President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, thus boosting the development inpeace of both countries towards socialism, and fostering the brotherhoodbetween the two nations./.
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