Vietnam sees peace protection as top priority: top legislator
Vietnam always backs and creates optimal conditions for people’s organisations, including the Vietnam Peace Committee, to engage in activities of world peace movements, stated NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan welcomes delegates attending World Peace Council Executive Committee's Meeting in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi(VNA) – Vietnam always backs and creates optimal conditions for people’sorganisations, including the Vietnam Peace Committee, to engage in activitiesof world peace movements, stated National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi KimNgan.
Vietnam considers theprotection of peace as a top priority, stressed the top legislator at a meetingwith leaders of the World Peace Council (WPC) and delegates attending the council’smeeting on November 24 in Hanoi.
As Vietnam experiencedwars, the country is deeply aware of the value of peace, she said.
Ngan welcomed the WPCdelegates to visit Vietnam in a time when the world has celebrated the 100thanniversary of the Russian October Revolution. Vietnam has recently held ameeting to mark the event, during which General Secretary of the CommunistParty of Vietnam delivered an important speech, she noted.
She affirmed that thepeople of Vietnam always keep in their mind the support that the WPC and itsmember organisations and countries have given to Vietnam during the paststruggle for national independence and reunification as well as current nationalconstruction and development.
Ngan also clarifiedVietnam’s consistent foreign policy of peace, independence, self-reliance,diversification, multilateralisation and active global integration, adding thatthe country has worked hard to join the world community’s efforts to securepeace. Recently, the country successfully hosted the APEC Economic Leaders’Meeting and related meetings with a hope of contributing to the APEC progressand prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region, she noted.
She also expressed herhope that the WPC will continue uniting forces for peace, solidarity, stabilityand development of nations, while assisting Vietnam in the current nationalconstruction and development.
For her part, WPC PresidentSocorro Gomez highly valued Vietnamese people’s love for peace as well assolidarity with people in the rest of the world for peace and unity in theglobe.
She told the host thatthe WPC meeting in Hanoi gathered delegates from different countries, who sharea common objective of peace – a value that President Ho Chi Minh of Vietnamdevoted his whole life for.-VNA
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National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan welcomes delegates attending World Peace Council Executive Committee's Meeting in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) 
