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| Politburo member and State President To Lam reads the eulogy__Photo: VNA |
The passing of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is a huge and irreparable loss for our Party, our nation, and our people, State President To Lam on July 26 said when delivering the funeral eulogy at the memorial service for General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong at the National Funeral Hall, 5 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi.
Among the leaders attending the service at the National Funeral Hall were State President To Lam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, Party Central Committee's Secretariat Standing Member Luong Cuong, and former high-ranking Party and State officials.
"Our country has lost a talented leader. The world communist and progressive movement has lost a sharp theorist. International friends have lost a sincere friend and close comrade. The family, clan, and homeland in Dong Hoi have lost an outstanding son," he said.
After nearly 60 years of rich and persistent revolutionary activities, Professor, Doctor, and Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, "with his scholarly and sharp intellect, left behind a valuable ideological and theoretical system about Vietnam's revolutionary path in the new era."
He strongly inspired and led the entire Party, people, and army with intelligence, humanistic spirit, noble compassion, strong will, and determination. He also had the personality and honor of a communist soldier who wholeheartedly served the Fatherland and the people with the mindset that “Honor is the most noble and sacred thing.”
President Lam emphasized that throughout his life of revolutionary activities, building and rectifying the Party and political system held a particularly important position to Trong.
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| Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's casket leaves National Funeral Hall__Photo: VNA |
Under his leadership, for the first time, our Party issued a thematic resolution on building and perfecting a law-governed socialist state of the people, by the people, and for the people. As State President and Chairman of the National Assembly, Trong was always concerned with building a legislative body that is truly the highest representative body of the people, truly democratic, and acts as a representative of the people and their legitimate rights and interests, Lam said.
Lam hailed Trong for possessing a profound and sharp political vision. The Party leader elevated the level of strategic thinking, creating new developments for Vietnamese defense, security, and foreign affairs with the imprint of “bamboo diplomacy.”
He was always steadfast in the viewpoint that regards the people as the root, “the people are the subject, the center of the đổi mới (renewal) process."
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| The entourage passes the Hanoi Opera House__Photo: VNA |
The casket of Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong, wrapped in the national flag, then left the National Funeral Hall to make way to Mai Dich Cemetery for the burial service at 3pm.- (VNS/VLLF)
