President Ho Chi Minh's birthday celebrated in Germany
The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany has organised several activities to celebrate the 134th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh ((May 19, 1890 - 2024), a great leader of the Vietnamese people and the working class and an eminent soldier of the workers' movement and the international communist movement.
Vietnamese Ambassdor to Germany Vu Quang Minh (L) and Le Duc Duong who met President Ho Chi Minh twice (Photo: VNA)
Berlin (VNA) - The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany has organised several activities to celebrate the 134th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh ((May 19, 1890 - 2024), a great leader of the Vietꦰnamese people and the working class and an emin𝓰ent soldier of the workers' movement and the international communist movement.
One of the activities was a visit by the embassy delegation to the family of Le Duc Duong who met the leader twice.
Duong, who now resides in Hoppegarten city, Brandenburg state, recounted the story of his meetings with the leader in 1955 when he was preparing to study in German, and two year later on the occasion of President Ho Chi Minh's state visit to the European nation.
On May 17, an incense offering ceremony was held at the embassy to commemorate the late president.
The same day, members of the embassy's Party organisation attended an online conference held by the Party committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to review the implementation of Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW dated May 18, 2021, of the Politburo on promoting the work of studying and following late President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and style in 2021 - 2024.
Organisations and individuals that made outstanding achievements in the movement were commended and rewarded at the event./.
Representatives from the Party Central Committee, State, National Assembly, Government, and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee laid wreaths at President Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum to pay tribute to the late leader, and offered incense at the Monument dedicated to Martyrs in Hanoi on May 18 on the occasion of President Ho Chi Minh's 134th birthday (May 19, 1890-2024).
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The event, the 12th of its kind jointly, was jointly organised by the Vietnamese Embassy in Belgium and Chris Geyskens, Chairwoman of the Belgium chapter of the Hoi An – Vietnam Association for Victims of AO/Dioxin.
