Countries, citizens worldwide honour President Ho Chi Minh’s life, revolutionary career
Philip Fernandez, a member of the Canada-Vietnam Friendship Society (CVFS), has highlighted the life and revolutionary career of President Ho Chi Minh during an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 133rd birth anniversary of the late leader (May 19, 1890 – 2023).
President Ho Chi Minh on the way to the border campaign in 1950 (Photo: VNA)
Ottawa (VNA) –Philip Fernandez, a member of the Canada-Vietnam Friendship Society (CVFS), has highlightedthe life and revolutionary career of President Ho Chi Minh during an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 133rdbirth anniversary of the late leader (May 19, 1890 – 2023).
According to Fernandez,UNESCO hounoured late PresidentHo Chi Minh as one of the great men of humanity, while countries and peoples worldwide also honorured his life and revolutionarycareer, and these remembrances are great reminders of his greatness.
He emphasised that theCVFS deeply respects President Ho Chi Minh who led the Vietnam in the fight fornational liberation, and wrote an indomitable page in the history of human strugglefor a world without oppression, exploitation and war.
Vietnam is closely followingPresident Ho Chi Minh’s diplomatic policy in international relations and therelationship with Canada in particular, he said.
President Ho Chi Minh's foreign policy is based on the principle ofnon-interference in internal affairs of other countries; and recognising independence,sovereignty and self-determination of nations, he noted.
The flexibleand adaptable foreign policy was based on principles for world peace and socialprogress, he added.
He showed his pleasureat the closer relations between Vietnam and Canada in recent years, expressingthe hope that the trend will be maintained and further developed in the future.
Achieving nationalindependence under the leadership of President Ho Chi Minh and the CommunistParty of Vietnam he founded helped the Vietnamese people master and buildtheir own future, he said.
Vietnam also plays an importantrole in protecting independence and sovereignty of all countries in t༒heUnited Nations (UN) as well as in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN), Fernandez stressed./.
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), with the legacy left by President Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam has made great achievements in its national reconstruction over the past 48 years, said Philip Fernandez, an active member of the Canada-Vietnam Friendship Society.
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President Ho Chi Minh on the way to the border campaign in 1950 (Photo: VNA) 
