Srilanka, May 1 -- Vietnamese President Luong Cuong has penned an exclusive article for the Daily Mirror to mark April 30, a landmark date that commemorates the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The historic day brought an end to the Vietnam War and paved the way for the reunification of North and South Vietnam. This article is published ahead of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's official visit to Vietnam on May 3.

The victory of the resistance war against the US for national salvation, culminating in the Spring 1975 General Offensive and Uprising, was a monumental triumph in our nation's millennia-long history of building and defending the country.

It "will forever be recorded in our national history as one of its most glorious ...