The 40th anniversary of South Vietnam’s liberation and Vietnam’s
national reunification made headlines in news agencies and media outlets
in many countries around the world.
The Lao
newspaper “People” on April 30 wrote that the 1975 spring victory, the
decisive end to North Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh Campaign, completely
defeated the US forces, liberating southern Vietnam and reunifying the
nation thanks to the solidarity, bravery and patriotism of those who
fought.
Other newspapers such as “Laos Nation”,
“Laos Development”, and “New Vientiane” hailed the victory on April 30,
1975, as a bright symbol of the unshakable solidarity among the peoples
of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
China’s Xinhua News
Agency reported on the April 30 ceremony marking the liberation and
reunification in Ho Chi Minh City, describing it as one of the most
important Vietnamese events of 2015.
It cited Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s speech at the ceremony, in which he said
that the victory heralded a new era of independence, reunification and
development which has transformed Vietnam into a strong nation with
prosperous people and a just, democratic, and civilised society.
In its story, Japan’s Kyodo news agency underlined the PM’s call upon
the young to uphold former generations’ revolutionary cause by
contributing to national development. The newswire also mentioned the
war pain Vietnam endured as well as the support by China and the Soviet
Union in the past.
Meanwhile, the US’s AP news
agency said that the moment North Vietnamese tanks crashed through the
gates of Saigon’s presidential palace on April 30, 1975 marked an
incredible victory for the revolutionary forces that had waged guerrilla
warfare for more than a decade against the US.
Vietnam’s commemoration of 40 years since the liberation and
reunification was also given widespread coverage on the websites of
Spiegel and DW and television channel N24 in Germany.
The celebrations also made headlines in stories published by Mexico’s
Notimex news agency and Argentina’s Clarin, Pagina 12 and La Voz
newspapers.-VNA