National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan welcomes international delegates to Viet Nam to attend Executive World Peace Council meeting. Ngan welcomed the WPC delegates to visit Viet Nam in a time when the world has celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution. Recently, the country successfully hosted the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting and related meetings with a hope of contributing to the APEC progress and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.
Speaking at the meeting, Ngan affirmed that the people of Viet Nam always keep in their mind the support that the WPC and its member organizations and countries have given to Viet Nam during the past struggle for national independence and reunification as well as current national construction and development.
Ngan hoped the WPC would continue to mobilize progressive and democratic forces to ensure peace, solidarity, stability and development in the world. She also expressed the hope that the council and others members of the council would continue to cooperate with and support Viet Nam in protecting and developing the country. Viet Nam always backs and creates optimal conditions for people’s organizations, including the Viet Nam Peace Committee, to engage in activities of world peace movements.
Ngan also clarified Viet Nam’s consistent foreign policy of peace, independence, self-reliance and active global integration, adding that the country has worked hard to join the world community’s efforts to secure peace.
For her part, WPC President Socorro Gomez thanked National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and National Assembly Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu, who is also Chairman of the Viet Nam Peace Committee for the warm welcome to the delegation. She highly valued Vietnamese people’s love for peace as well as solidarity with people in the rest of the world for peace and unity in the globe.
She told the host that the WPC meeting in Hanoi gathered delegates from different countries, who share a common objective of peace – a value that all the Vietnamese struggle for. She promised that the council and its members would continue to call for solidarity between peoples for world peace.
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