DailyEconomic – According to VNA, citing the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Health Commission, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong died on the 19th local time.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Health Commission said on Friday that despite the care and treatment of the party, the state, doctors and chief health experts, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong died after a period of illness.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the National Assembly of Vietnam, the President of the State, the Government and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front will issue a special notice on his state funeral.
Nguyen Phu Trong visited China in 1992, 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2007. After taking office as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam in 2011, he visited China in October of the same year and in April 2015. Subsequently, Nguyen Phu Trong visited China again in 2017 and 2022.