Vietnam’s Vice President attends opening ceremony of 18th NAM Summit

BAKU, Oct 26, 2019, VNA. Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh joined leaders and representatives from 120 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), observer countries and international organisations at the opening of the 18th NAM Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, on October 25, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

In his opening speech, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev highlighted that for more than half a century, the NAM has promoted the values of humanity.

As one of the biggest organizations of the world, the NAM plays an important role in stability, security and peace in the world and is strongly committed to international law norms, principles of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of all its members, said the host President.

Vice President Thinh is scheduled to make a speech at the summit.

Earlier on October 24, the Vietnamese Vice President chaired a ceremony marking 60 years since President Ho Chi Minh visited Azerbaijan (July 23, 1959-2019).

Addressing the ceremony, Vice President Thinh said following the historic visit, Baku has become a model for Vietnam to develop its oil and gas industry. She thanked Azerbaijan for sending experts and engineers to Vietnam to help it build this key industry.

She also expressed happiness at the development of bilateral ties over the past year, and affirmed that Vietnam will never forget the great assistance that the Azerbaijani people has given to Vietnam in the latter’s past struggle for national liberation and current national construction and defence.