According to the Vietnam News Agency, within the framework of the state visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan, at noon 8.5 (local time), General Secretary To Lam and Lady Ngo Phuong Ly and the high -ranking delegation of Vietnam attended the inauguration ceremony of Ho Chi Minh President of Vietnam Petroleum - Azerbaijan at the National University of Petroleum and National Industry Azerbaijan, Baku in Baku.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, General Secretary To Lam affirmed that the good traditional friendship between Vietnam and Azerbaijan was founded on the historic visit of President Ho Chi Minh to Azerbaijan in 1959 and was nurtured by generations of leaders and people of the two countries, including the late President Heydar Aliyev.
In particular, the General Secretary emphasized that President Ho Chi Minh had soon clearly recognized the role of the oil and gas industry in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland of Vietnam, as well as his concerns in finding this valuable resource to serve the development of the country.
During his historic visit to Azerbaijan in 1959, President Ho Chi Minh said: I think our Vietnam has a sea, and we will definitely have oil, but we are at war, and we cannot do it yet. I hope and believe that after Vietnam's successful resistance war, you will help us find oil, exploit and process oil, and build an oil and gas industrial park like Baku...".
General Secretary To Lam acknowledged the help of friends and brothers, including Azerbaijan, a country with a famous tradition of oil and gas exploration and exploitation in the world, and is also the cradle of training many leaders and high-quality labor forces in the Vietnamese oil and gas industry.
The General Secretary suggested that the leaders of the National University of Petroleum and Industry of Azerbaijan continue to pay attention to training Vietnam with high-quality students and graduate students in the fields of oil and gas and energy, commensurate with the level of the strategic partnership that has just been established between the two countries.
General Secretary To Lam affirmed that the inauguration of President Ho Chi Minh Memorial Room with the Vietnam Oil and Gas industry - Azerbaijan on the occasion of President Ho Chi Minh's 135th anniversary (19.5.1890 - 19.5.2025) is a testament to the determination of the people of Vietnam and Azerbaijan in the implementation of the Vietnamese Petroleum Building, which is stronger and stronger in Vietnam's petroleum construction in the development of the Vietnam Petroleum industry. Petroleum sector between the two countries.
The President Ho Chi Minh Memorial room for the Vietnam - Azerbaijan Oil and Gas Industry was built on the campus of the Azerbaijan National University of Petroleum and Industry, Baku, Azerbaijan. This will be a place to display and preserve valuable images and documents about President Ho Chi Minh with Azerbaijan, images of mutual visits between the leaders of the two countries and President Ho Chi Minh with the Vietnam - Azerbaijan Oil and Gas industry.
