(LLCT) - Celebrating the 110^th birthday of Party General Secretary Ha Huy Tap, a talented leader of the Party, an outstanding theoretician of the Vietnamese revolution, an exemplar of steadfast loyalty, indomitability and lifelong devotion to the Party and nation, and a celebrity of his home province of Ha Tinh, the Party Committee and people of Ha Tinh in particular and the country in general, it is necessary to take pride in their glorious revolutionary tradition and strive to put it to good use, continue to build the transparent and strong Party and increase its political mettle, leadership capability, ruling position and combativeness under new circumstances.

(LLCT) - President Ho Chi Minh’s visit to France in 1946 was one of the most important diplomatic activities of the Government during the 1945-1946 period. His visit to France began a diplomatic trend of new Vietnam according to his own thinking: peaceful dialogue on the basis of respecting each other’s sovereignty. During his time in France, he left an unforgettable impression on French people because of his sincerity, open-mindedness and simplicity. One of those French people he met was Raymond Aubrac, former Commissioner of the Republic in Marseilles and member of the French Parliament, who during President Ho Chi Minh’s visit in 1946 not only became his friend but also participated in Vietnamese fight for national liberation and their national construction for decades that followed.

(LLCT) - Seventy-five years ago, on the 19^th of May 1945, the Communist Party of Vietnam decided to found the League for the Independence of Vietnam, or Viet Minh for short. Viet Minh was the first unified national front established as a system to connect central and local levels, operating according to its own charter and self-formed programs. The organization made a decisive contribution to the success of the August Revolution in 1945.

(LLCT) - Numerous articles have been published that discuss the legality of the contents in PM Pham Van Dong’s 1958 Diplomatic Note and the evidence provided by China. This article, referring to a number of works conducted by domestic and foreign researchers, attempts to analyze the legality of PM Pham Van Dong’s Diplomatic Note in the hope of asserting that the document has a common diplomatic nature, showing the socialist system’s solidarity against US invasions during the early stages of the Cold War. Thus, it does not exert any impact on Vietnam’s legitimate sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa Archipelagos.

(LLCT) - On January 6, 1946, the Vietnamese people casted ballots to elect the first National Assembly of Vietnam. This historic event marked the start of the Vietnamese people’s advancement towards national independence and socialism. 

(LLCT) - In his return to Vietnam in early July 2015, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said that when the two countries normalized their relations, we understood each other and set ourselves free... The efforts by the two countries to replace conflict with reconciliation provided useful lessons for other countries as the world faced dramatic changes and conflicts. He quoted his teacher in saying that 50 years ago, “what we tried to do today was making our societies happy and moving closer together instead of retaliating against each other. We were holding out our open arms rather than our fists”.

(LLCT) - More than 2,500 years ago, the State of Van Lang of the Vietnamese was born, creating the awareness and sense of the homeland and nation and inspiring patriotism. Although patriotism is a universal value, it has its own peculiarities in Vietnam due to the country’s particular circumstances.

(LLCT) - Sixty years ago, on 20 July 1954, a conference in Geneva aimed at putting an end to the war in Indochina concluded. This was an important event in the contemporary Vietnamese history and was the first time Vietnam had participated in a diplomatic activity on an international scale. Commenting on this event, many confirmed the victory of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) while others believed Vietnam agreed to superpowers’ arrangements which were not beneficial to itself and which caused the country to be divided into halves for the following two decades.

Following is a perspective on the event.

(LLCT) - Vietnam’s Human Rights Report was unanimously approved under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by 47 member countries of the Human Rights Council (HRC) and in the presence of 93 member countries of the United Nations (UN) and many international and non-governmental organizations on the 20th of June 2014 at the headquarters of the UN in Geneva. The event showed the international community’s appreciation of Vietnam’s efforts and achievements in delivering human rights and marked Vietnam’s steady progress in international integration and human rights dialogue and cooperation. It also implied that Vietnam was a good example of commitment, effort, and achievement in human rights on international scale.

“He was the greatest representative of the solidarity policy laid down by the Party and President Ho Chi Minh.”(1) The article discusses how Ton Duc Thang applied Ho Chi Minh’s thought on great solidarity to building the national solidarity front in Vietnam.

Joining the revolution at 14, becoming a member of the Communist Party at 29 and General of the People’s Army of Vietnam at 37 and was member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Standing Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Commander-in-chief of the army and National Assembly Deputy, Vo Nguyen Giap devoted his entire life to the revolutionary cause of the Party and nation. He followed Ho Chi Minh’s national salvation path as well as his morality. He was public-spirited and talented yet modest. He mastered the art of war yet respected and loved every person and his or her fate. He was a famous general yet a simple, friendly and sympathetic person. His life, career and personality have gone down and will go down in the country’s history and have stayed and will stay in people’s hearts forever.