Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son speaks at the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, Hanoi, January 17, 2023. (Photo: sggp.org.vn)

Prominent among the participants was former Vice President and former Foreign Minister Nguyen Thi Binh, who was head of the negotiation delegation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam at the Paris Conference.

In his remarks, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son said the Agreement was the result of the longest and most difficult struggle in the history of Vietnam's diplomacy to end the longest war in the 20th century.

The peace accords created a premise for the Vietnamese people to realize their aspirations for peace, national independence, national reunification and prosperous development, he said.

Lessons drawn from the Paris Agreement negotiations, its signing and implementation, have maintained their value, even in the Party and the State’s foreign policy during the present cause of reform, national development and defense, Minister Son noted.

Hélène Luc, Honorary Senator and Honorary President of the France-Vietnam Friendship Association, said the whole world warmly welcomed Vietnam’s victory which resulted from  the Vietnamese people’s staunchness and bravery and the support of peace loving forces around the world.