General Vo Nguyen Giap Park in Spratly Islands district inaugurated
Monday, 16/05/2016 15:10 (GMT+7)
(CPV) - Vietnam People's Navy, Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB), Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL), brigade Engineer Corps No 131 and other units on May 15th inaugurated General Vo Nguyen Giap Park in Son Ca Island, Spratly Islands district.
Photo: VNA
Covering 400 square meters, the 1.76m in height-sandstone statue of General Vo Nguyen Giap is located in the central of the park, demonstrating the General’s majestic and decisive appearance.
A bow-shaped ceramic wall introduces 300 documentary photos relating to General Giap’s life and career, battle fields and victories in the last two resistance wars of the nation.
Speaking at the event, Rear Admiral Ngo Si Quyet, Vice Commander of Vietnam People's Navy, stressed that this cultural, historical and social General Vo Nguyen Giap Park project manifests the deep whole-hearted sentiment of soldiers in Spratly islands in particular and the Vietnam People’s Army in general to General Vo Nguyen Giap - the elder brother of the Vietnamese People's Army.
The park was built to educate the resilient fighting spirit of the Vietnamese people and soldiers in the national liberation and protection of homeland sovereignty.
It also reaffirmed that the Paracel and Spratly archipelagos are inseparable parts of Vietnam's territory./.
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