Uong Chu Luu assessed that the 22nd Assembly of the World Peace Council had been a great success, completing the proposed agenda such as approving a Political Declaration, electing the new Executive Committee, and successfully organizing the Hanoi Peace Conference.

“Over the working days in Hanoi and Quang Ninh, the delegates have witnessed the positive changes of Vietnam - a country that has gone through a long period of painful and brutal wars. Delegates have also brought to Vietnam a sense of solidarity, and contributed your valuable opinions and profound comments on the peace situation regionally and globally” said Uong Chu Luu.

Hoang Duc Hanh - Standing Vice President of the Quang Ninh's Fatherland Front Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Quang Ninh's Union of Friendship Organizations presents flowers to newly-appointed President of the World Peace Council Pallab Sengupta (Photo: Thu Ha).

Previously, the international delegation attending the 22^nd Assembly of the World Peace Council visited Ha Long Bay - a world natural heritage.

In an earlier interview with the press regarding the 22nd Assembly of the World Peace Council, Uong Chu Luu, former Vietnam Communist Party’s Central Committee member, former Vice Chairman of the National Assembly, and President of the Vietnam Peace Committee emphasized Vietnam's positive relations with the WPC.

"WPC and Vietnam have a special historical relationship. In 1949, Vietnam sent an 11-member delegation to Congress to establish the WPC. Foreseeing WPC's important role and the need to connect Vietnam with the council, President Ho Chi Minh and the Communist Party directed the establishment of Vietnam's Committee for the Protection of World Peace (now the Vietnam Peace Committee).

Over the past 7 decades, the WPC has always given Vietnam good companionship, significant international solidarity, and strong support for the cause of national liberation, reunification, and in the present day renovation, construction, protection, and development," said the President of the Vietnam Peace Committee

Regarding Vietnam's contributions to the WPC, he said: "Vietnam has fully participated in WPC's congresses and meetings of the Executive Committee in the region and in WPC's member states. Besides actively participating in WPC's forum against atomic bombs, Vietnam holds activities to support the peace movement launched by the Council. Nowadays, peace is not only the absence of war but also means development, ensuring human rights, and protecting the environment. Vietnam has organized and participated in conferences, and workshops to respond to the view."

Hosting the event, to international friends and members of the World Peace Council, Vietnam wants to send a message about the image of Vietnam and its people in the past and in the current renovating era. Through the assembly, Vietnam reaffirms its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation, development, multilateralization, and diversification. Vietnam wants to make friends with all countries and partners based on non-interference in internal affairs, respect for independence and self-reliance as well as showing its role as an active member in the international community.

The assembly also demonstrates VPC's contribution to the world peace movement and the WPC’s activities. International friends, especially WPC's member organizations, are interested in acknowledging Vietnam's achievements and lessons on the road toward socialism.

Another message Vietnam wants to convey is its gratitude to international friends for more than seven decades, including the WPC and its member organizations. Over the past century, international friends have always stood shoulder to shoulder, supporting and united with the Vietnamese people in the cause of national liberation and reunification and in the current process of the country's renovation, construction, protection, and development.

For the Vietnamese people, organizing the 22nd Assembly of the WPC is an opportunity to raise their awareness of all classes of people, especially the young generation, about the role and value of peace in Vietnam's nation-building and defense. International solidarity and support are among the important factors for the victory of the Vietnamese revolution, especially in the former resistance wars and in the current renovation era.

"We also want to convey a message: “Peace is everyone's business”, as said by scientist Frédéric Joliot-Curie - the first President of the World Peace Council," he said.

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