Politburo Member and Vice President Pany Yathortou

(KPL) A grand meeting for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954-2024) was held today in Vientiane in the presence of Politburo Member and Vice President Pany Yathortou, Politburo Member and Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone, other Party and government leaders, and civil servants.

“Today, Party Central Committee, the government, the National Assembly, armed forces, the Lao Front for National Development, mass organizations, and the multi-ethnic Lao people are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory together with the fraternal Vietnamese Party, government and people to commemorate heroic deeds, bravery of the army and people of Vietnam in the fearless battle of the national liberation cause to defeat old colonial power and the interference of the new colonials which took 56 days. It commemorates the long history of relations between Laos and Vietnam in their strong combatant alliance, demonstrating firmly the strong bond with great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties, governments, and peoples of Laos and Vietnam,” said member of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee and Head of the Propaganda and Training Board of the Party Central Committee Khamphanh Pheuyavong. 

Vice President Pany Yathortou noted that the Dien Bien Phu victory is a great historic event of heroic Vietnamese people, demonstrating the strength of the force of great unity of all Vietnamese people, the strong aspiration of the Vietnamese people for peace and national independence, and the clear-sighted leadership of Workers’ Party of Vietnam led by President Ho Chi Minh.

She also emphasized that the victory is a victory of solidarity and combatant alliance in the anti-colonialism liberation of the Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian peoples, contributing to the abolishment of old-style colonialism in the world.

At a grand ceremony for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh described this triumph as the peak victory of the resistance war and the essence of Vietnam’s strength in the Ho Chi Minh era, noting that it forced the French colonialists to sign the Geneva Accords on the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam on July 21, 1954, paving the way for the liberation and construction of the North that entered a transitional period towards socialism and forming a solid foundation for the fight to liberate the South and reunify the country.

The historic victory was not only significant to the Vietnamese revolution but also became a source of support for national liberation movements and marked the start of the collapse of the old colonialism around the world, he remarked.

He also appreciated the precious and wholehearted assistance from China, the countries of the former Soviet Union, socialist nations, international friends, progressive and peace-loving forces worldwide, especially Laos and Cambodia in the combatant alliance of the three Indochinese countries, for the Dien Bien Phu Campaign as well as the Vietnamese people’s struggle for national liberation.

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