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SPECIAL COMMUNIQUÉ on Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s passing away
The Vietnam News Agency 20:22, 2024/07/20
The Party Chief's funeral will be held as a national mourning.

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, the National Assembly, the President, and the Government and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front have issued a special communiqué, announcing that General Secretary of the CPV Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong passed away at 1:38 pm on July 19, 2024, and his funeral will be held as a national mourning.

 General Secretary of the CPV Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong.

The special communiqué reads:

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and his family inform with deep grief:

Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, born on April 14, 1944; native place: Dong Hoi commune, Dong Anh District, Hanoi; residence: No. 5, Thien Quang Street, Nguyen Du Ward, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi. He started working in 1967 and joined the Communist Party of Vietnam on December 19, 1967. He is a member of the Party Central Committee of the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th tenures; Politburo member of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th tenures; permanent member of the Political Bureau in the 8th tenure; Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) in the 11th and 12th tenures; General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee in the 11th, 12th and 13th tenures; President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the 2016-2021 tenure; Chairman of the National Defence and Security Council; Secretary of the Central Military Commission, member of the Standing Board of the Central Public Security Party Committee, head of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena. NA deputy of the 11th, 12th, 13t, 14th and 15th tenures.
After a period of illness, despite the wholehearted treatment and care by the Party, State, leading medical experts, and his family, he passed away at 1:38 pm on July 19, 2024, due to old age and severe illness at the age of 80 at Central Military Hospital 108.

Throughout his 60 years of work, he has made great and exceptionally outstanding contributions to the glorious revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation. He has been conferred with the Gold Star Order, the 55-year Party membership badge, and many other noble orders and medals of Vietnam, foreign countries, and international organizations.

His passing away is a great loss to our Party, State and people, and his family. In memory of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front decide to hold the funeral of Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong with the national mourning etiquette.

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE VIETNAM FATHERLAND FRONT
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