This is the proposal raised by Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Member of the Party Central Committee and deputy Minister of National Defense, at a meeting with Patricia Miralles, Secretary of State in charge of Veterans and War Memories of the French Government released on May 5, in Hanoi.

Since 1996, France’s Val de Marne province has assisted Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Yen Bai province through projects in many fields, making their relationship a typical example of local cooperation between the two countries.