Venezuela respects the career and legacy of President Ho Chi Minh

On April 17 (local time), Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang visited and offered flowers in memory of President Ho Chi Minh at the Ho Chi Minh Monument on SimOn Bolivar Avenue in the capital Caracas.

This is the first activity of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang during his official friendship visit to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from April 17-19.

Also attending the flower offering ceremony on the Vietnamese side were Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi, leaders of the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Public Security, Agriculture and Rural Development, and leaders of Hai Phong City.

On the Venezuelan side were Vice President of the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) Jesus Faria; Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania Tatiana Pugh Moreno.

Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang emphasized that President Ho Chi Minh was the national liberation hero of Vietnam in the 20th century, the founder of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the founder of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the first Foreign Minister of Vietnam, and was honored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an outstanding cultural figure.

He left behind the legacy of the “Ho Chi Minh School of Diplomacy”, which places importance on relations with Latin American countries. The presence of the Ho Chi Minh Statue in the capital city of Caracas demonstrates the prestige, stature, respect and love of the Venezuelan people for him.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that the Vietnamese delegation’s visit to Venezuela this time aims to further deepen the friendship and cooperation with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, contributing to peace, cooperation, development and progress of the two nations and the world. This is also the thought of President Ho Chi Minh when he declared “Vietnam wants to be friends with all democratic countries and not to create enmity with anyone” in the Declaration of Independence in 1945.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang respectfully thanked the Venezuelan Government and the Caracas Capital Government, the PSUV Party, socio-political forces and people for supporting the construction and preservation of the Ho Chi Minh Monument here.

For her part, Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Tatiana Pugh Moreno affirmed that Venezuela highly values the image, career and legacy of President Ho Chi Minh. The image of Uncle Ho is a great symbol that reminds us of the heroic and brave Vietnamese people.

Deputy Minister Tatiana Pugh Moreno, who was the former Venezuelan Ambassador to Vietnam, expressed her admiration for Vietnam's development, moving forward steadily and always remaining steadfast with the principles left by President Ho Chi Minh.

She was moved to share that with historical similarities, Vietnamese friends are very knowledgeable about the situation in Venezuela, both countries continue to develop, and more importantly, Venezuela and Vietnam do not give up the struggle to protect their independence and sovereignty.

The Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister reaffirmed the sentiment, solidarity and understanding of the Venezuelan people towards Vietnam; expressing his wish that the bilateral relationship will continue to develop greenly and sustainably in the future.

On the same afternoon, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang visited and had a friendly talk with officials and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela.

The Deputy Prime Minister requested the Embassy to promote foreign affairs research and advisory work, while paying attention to and taking care of Party building work, preserving and consolidating solidarity and building units so that the Embassy can fulfill its responsibility of further deepening the traditional friendship and cooperation with Venezuela, through increasing high-level delegation exchanges between ministries, sectors and localities of the two countries.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang assigned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to soon develop a plan to upgrade the headquarters of Vietnam's representative agencies abroad for the 2026-2030 period to ensure working conditions for the representative agencies.

On this occasion, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang also visited and laid flowers at the Cuartel de la Montaña Memorial, the resting place of the late President Hugo Chavez Frias. The Venezuelan leader studied Marxism-Leninism very carefully and read many works of President Ho Chi Minh.

During his lifetime, President Hugo Chavez - a symbol of a Latin American revolutionary fire against imperialism, steadfast in national independence and enthusiastic about building socialism for the 21st century - once shared that he idolized three figures: Cuban Revolutionary Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, President Ho Chi Minh and General Vo Nguyen Giap.

According to VNA/Vietnam+

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