State President: VN is grateful to close int’l friends
VGP – The Party, State and people of Việt Nam are always grateful to such close friends as Mr. Andre Menras, a French citizen who has stood side by side with Vietnamese people since their resistance war.
Hosting a reception given
to Mr. Andre Menras on Thursday, State President Nguyễn Minh Triết stressed
that the Party, State and people of
Việt
State
President Nguyễn Minh Triết (R) and Mr. Andre Menras, Hà Nội, November 5, 2009
- Photo: VNA
As Chairman of the
France-Việt Nam Development Friendship Society, Mr. Menras has helped many
universities in Đà Nẵng, Nha Trang and Hồ Chí Minh City to exchange their teachers
and share experience with training institutes in
In 2004, Mr. Andre Menras
started to grant scholarships to poor Vietnamese students and became the trade
agent for 800 wine-makers in Languedoc Loussillon,
He is now applying for
Vietnamese nationality.
On July 25, 1970, Mr. Andre
Menras, working as a primary teacher in Sài Gòn (now Hồ Chí Minh City), and one
of his friends publicly protested the Việt Nam War right in front of the Lower House of the Sài Gòn regime.
He was imprisoned for 2
years and a half by the pro-American Sài Gòn regime before being expelled.
While being kept in prison,
Mr. Andre Menras tried to learn Vietnamese to better understand the
struggle for national salvation of Vietnamese people.
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