People's Democracy

Further Strengthen Indo-Vietnam Relations

CPI(M) Leaders Meet Nong Duc Manh

A THREE member delegation of Communist Party of India (Marxist) consisting of Harkishen Singh Surjeet, general secretary, Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member, Hari Singh Kang, central committee member met Nong Duc Manh, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam on May 1 at Rashtrapathi Bhawan in New Delhi.

Nong Duc Manh was on official tour of India at the invitation of the prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee from April 28 to May 2, 2003. Before coming to Delhi he visited Kolkata, where he met a delegation of CPI(M) leaders, which included Polit Bureau members Jyoti Basu, Anil Biswas and Biman Basu. He also had a separate meeting with the state chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya.

During the meeting in New Delhi, Nong Duc Manh informed the CPI(M) delegation about his party’s views on the international developments and reiterated the principal stand of the Vietnamese people and their government on these developments. He also briefed the CPI(M) delegation on the socio-economic developments in Vietnam and expressed his strong desire to strengthen the relations between the two countries and our two parties.

Surjeet while welcoming his counterpart from Vietnam briefly informed the visiting leaders about the present situation in India. He recalled the old bonds of friendship between the people of India and Vietnam. Surjeet expressed the hope that this visit of the general secretary of the Vietnam CP will be very significant for the development of relations between India and Vietnam and the strengthening of the fraternal relations between the two parties.