VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong praised the great contributions of former revolutionary fighters and political prisoners held in imperialist and colonialist prisons during the struggle for national independence, at the 18th meeting in Ha Noi

NA Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong meets delegates at the 18th meeting of revolutionary fighters who were kept in Hoa Lo prison from 1930-1954.

Trong told the attendees that he highly valued the municipal authorities and other relevant agencies for the care they have provided to the former revolutionary fighters and for creating favourable conditions for the liaison committees to operate effectively.

He urged the former revolutionary fighters to continue to promote the patriotic tradition and revolutionary spirit, to educate the younger generations, and to contribute to the Party’s revolutionary career as well as to national construction and development.

National liaison committee chairman Ta Quoc Bao said that the liaison committees currently had 235 members who were inmates at Hoa Lo from 1930 to 1945.

In reviewing the work of the 2005-08 term and planning for the 2009-12 term, the committee would continue encouraging its members to collect documents in preparation for publication of a memoir of former Hoa Lo political prisoners to mark the upcoming 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi.

(Source: Viet Nam News)