The seminar highlighted the historical significance of the Geneva Agreement towards the struggle for national liberation of the Vietnamese people and people around the world. It also summarised valuable lessons that are still useful to the cause of national construction, development and protection.
It also created an opportunity to recognise and honour the great contributions of Vietnam's diplomatic sector, including the contributions of witnesses who negotiated, signed and contributed to the success of the Geneva Conference, which opened a new stage for the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation.
Speaking at the seminar, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son emphasised, that the 1954 Geneva Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Vietnam was an important historical milestone in the cause of national liberation and reunification.
The Geneva Conference was the first multilateral forum in which Vietnam joined the direct participation and negotiations with major countries.
Participating in such a forum for the first time, the Vietnamese diplomatic sector affirmed the position and internal strength of a nation with thousands of years of history, as well as its strong will to protect the country's independence and the diplomacy, imbued with the quintessence of national culture and Ho Chi Minh’s diplomatic ideology, style, and art.
Politburo member, President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) and Chairman of the Central Theory Council Nguyen Xuan Thang said, that promoting the great power and influence of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, the Geneva Agreement was the pinnacle of Vietnamese diplomacy in the resistance war against the French colonialists.
The 1946 Preliminary Agreement signed on March 6, 1946, the Provisional Agreement on September 14, 1946, and the Geneva Agreement on July 21, 1954, witnessed the maturity and growth of the revolutionary diplomacy in the Ho Chi Minh era, together with turning-point changes in the position of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on the global stage, the official said.
