HCM City, May 6 -- State President Luong Cuong expressed gratitude to the Indian people for their wholehearted assistance to Vietnam in the past struggle for national independence as well as in the current process of national construction and development while receiving Indian Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju in Ho Chi Minh City on May 6.

President Cuong welcomed Rijiju's attendance at the United Nations Day of Vesak being held in HCM City, a Buddhist celebration hosted by Vietnam for the fourth time. He thanked Rijiju for bringing Lord Buddha's sarira, a sacred treasure of India, to Vietnam, describing the gesture as a testament to the deep cultural and religious ties between the two nation...