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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 1. 28th February 1973

[Introduction]

"We would like to convey through your paper, our very warm thanks to New Zealand students for their actions in support of the Vietnamese people", the Mayor of Hanoi and President of the Hanoi Federation of Trade Unions, Vu Dinh, told Salient last week.

Accompanied by Tran Thanh, Deputy Head of the International Department of the Vietnam Federation of Trade Unions and Do Trong Hop, an interpreter, Vu Dinh was in New Zealand as the guest of the Wellington Trades Council and other unions. Their visit greatly strengthened fraternal ties between the Vietnamese and New Zealand trade union movements.

"The aim of our visit here", Vu Dinh said, "is to thank those unions which have in the past staged many actions of solidarity and support for the Vietnamese people. We have come here just to thank the progressive people in New Zealand for their support, and we hope to strengthen further relations between the Vietnamese and New Zealand people, and between New Zealand and Vietnamese trade unions". At a press conference after the delegation had arrived from Australia, he announced that he and his colleagues intended to invite New Zealand trade unionists back to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.