(VOVWORLD) - Memories of President Ho will live forever in the hearts of foreign friends as a great man of his time, a talented politician, and a model of humanity and morality.
 Vilayvanh Phomkhe, Laotian Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and a former Laotian Ambassador to Vietnam in an interview with VOV |
Vilayvanh Phomkhe, Laotian Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and a former Laotian Ambassador to Vietnam, feels a deep love and respect for President Ho Chi Minh. He said that without Vietnam’s support and President Ho Chi Minh’s leadership, there would have been no Vietnam-Laos alliance to fight for national liberation.
“Without support of the Vietnamese revolution, the Laos revolution could hardly gain power. When we took over the administration, we had to ask officials from the old liberation zone to help build the government of the liberated area,” said Vilayvanh Phomkhe.
French reporter and historian Alain Rusio, who has studied Indochina, Vietnam, and President Ho Chi Minh, says that Nguyen Ai Quoc, even as a young man, was an international citizen. He was concerned with protecting oppressed people worldwide, not just in Vietnam.
 An Algerian newspaper writes about President Ho Chi Minh. (photo: Ngoc Thach) |
Egyptian reporter Ahmed Hassan, expressing his sincere love and esteem for President Ho Chi Minh, said President Ho was not only a talented leader but a communist soldier who influenced revolutions to liberate oppressed people worldwide.
“President Ho Chi Minh visited Egypt three times and, with President Gamal Abdel Nasser, laid a foundation for bilateral relations with the establishment of a Vietnamese Trade office in Egypt. Since then the two countries have developed strong diplomatic and trade relations,” Ahmed Hassan said.
Time magazine selected President Ho Chi Minh as one of its "100 Persons of the Century" and 5 times featured his image on its cover. When Vietnam was unified, Time magazine called President Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese people winners in national liberation.
The French newspaper Le Monde published a book entitled “President Ho Chi Minh, who won national independence for Vietnam,” the 11th book in a 20-volume collection on individuals who changed the world in the 20th century. The newspaper said President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology of national independence and unification will live forever in the hearts of the Vietnamese people. Uncle Ho’s saying will go down in history: "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom."