On the morning of July 19, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized a scientific workshop "70 years of the Geneva Agreement on the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam (July 21, 1954 - July 21, 2024)".
The workshop gathered many quality articles, demonstrating the interest and enthusiasm of agencies, scholars and veteran officials about the process of negotiating, signing and implementing the agreement of historical significance to the country.
Delegates visit documents on the 1954 Geneva Agreement (Photo: VNA).
Speaking at the workshop, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son recalled that 70 years ago, on July 21, 1954, the Geneva Agreement on the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam was signed in Geneva (Switzerland) and became an important historical milestone in the cause of national liberation and reunification of Vietnam.
Along with the Dien Bien Phu victory, the Geneva Agreement completely ended the nearly 100-year colonial rule in Vietnam, completely liberated the North, and led to the complete realization of the goal of national independence and national unification.
Regarding foreign affairs, Minister Bui Thanh Son emphasized that the 1954 Geneva Conference was a multilateral forum with the participation and direct negotiations of major countries, which Vietnam participated in for the first time.
In this first participation, the Vietnamese diplomatic sector affirmed the spirit, mettle, and intelligence of a nation with thousands of years of civilization; with an indomitable will to protect independence; imbued with the quintessence of national culture and the ideology, style, and art of Ho Chi Minh's diplomacy.
Over the past 70 years, many scientific seminars and conferences on the Geneva Accords have been held. Research on this event has always attracted the attention of politicians, diplomats, military and historical researchers at home and abroad.
Through frank, scientific and objective exchanges, Minister Bui Thanh Son hopes that this workshop will help unify the perception of the role and significance of the agreement, on that basis proposing initiatives and lessons on applying experience from the negotiation, signing and implementation of the agreement in the new context.
"Looking back on the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Agreement is also an opportunity for today's generation to understand more fully and deeply and to show gratitude for the great sacrifices and contributions of previous generations of leaders and revolutionary cadres who devoted their youth to the Fatherland to create the great Dien Bien Phu victory," the Foreign Minister affirmed.
Source: https://dantri.com.vn/xa-hoi/70-nam-hiep-dinh-geneva-dien-dan-nuoc-lon-lan-dau-co-viet-nam-tham-du-20240719160128746.htm
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