President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum official honoured with Russia's friendship order

ABO/NDO- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, on behalf of President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, presented the Friendship Order to Major General Bui Hai Son, acting head of the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Management Board and Commander of the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Protection Command during a ceremony in Hanoi on April 6.

Major General Son was honoured for his contributions to strengthening friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Russia.

Addressing the ceremony, Russian Deputy PM Chernyshenko underlined that Russia highly values the efforts and contributions by the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Management Board and Major General Son to the promotion of ties between the two nations.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko presents the Friendship Order to Major General Bui Hai Son at the ceremony. (Photo: VNA).

The Russian side, especially the All-Russian Research Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (VILAR), will continue to coordinate with the board to perform the task of maintaining and protecting the utmost safety of President Ho Chi Minh’s body, he stated.

For his part, Major General Son said that the order is great honour to him. He pledged that in the time to come, the board will continue to further develop its sound partnership with the VILAR, while actively contributing to reinforcing the friendship and solidarity between the two nations.

Earlier the same day, Chernyshenko and the Russian delegation laid flowers at the Bac Son Monument for Heroic Martyrs and paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum.

(Source: NDO)