PM Nguyen Tan Dung offers condolences to family of former President Vo Chi Cong

Leaders of the Party and State, diplomatic corps, international organisations and people in and outside the country continue to pay tribute to Vo Chi Cong, former President of the State Council, in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Quang Nam province, his homeland.

In Ho Chi Minh City, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on September 11 paid tribute to the former State leader right after he returned from his Laos visit.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung offers condolences to family of former President Vo Chi Cong.

PM Dung wrote in the funeral memorial book “We deeply grieve for former President Vo Chi Cong, an outstanding son of the Vietnamese nation, a loyal and unyielding communist Party member, and a talented, virtuous and exemplary leader of the Party, State and people”.

On September 10-11, hundreds of delegations of leaders of the Party, State, Fatherland Front, armed forces, ministries, central and local agencies, social organisations, diplomatic corps and people nationwide laid wreaths at the Thong Nhat Hall to express their profound sorrow about the death of Vo Chi Cong, who was also former Chairman of the National Defence Council and former Deputy Prime Minister.

In the capital city of Hanoi, nearly 100 delegations from central and local agencies as well as 37 international delegations came to offer condolences over the decease of the former State leader.

In his home province of Quang Nam, by September 11, around 180 delegations from central and Central Highlands localities, agencies, socio-political organisations and people in the province paid tribute to the former Politburo member, former Party Central Committee Secretary and former advisor to the Party Central Committee.

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(Theo website Nguyễn Tấn Dũng)