Dutch author Peter de Goeje’s book “Met Solidaire Groet” featuring Dutch
people’s support for Vietnamese people in the latter’s struggle for
national independence and reunification was introduced to the public at a
ceremony in Hanoi on October 30.
At the ceremony, President
of the Vietnam-Netherlands Friendship Association Dao Xuan Ngoc reviewed
the cooperation between Vietnam and the Netherlands in all fields and
Dutch people’s solidarity movements with Vietnamese people in wartime.
He said the launch of the book is a significant activity to
celebrate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and
the Netherlands.
The Netherlands was among the first countries in West Europe to establish diplomatic ties with Vietnam in 1973.
The book was translated into Vietnamese and Professor Phan Huy Le – a
historian, who had joined in many science and education cooperation
programmes between Vietnam and the Netherlands, wrote the preface of the
book.
At the launch ceremony, readers met with the author, who
is a member of the Science and Technology Committee for Vietnam, which
had provided Vietnam with scientific and technological assistance during
wartime and the then national construction cause.-VNA