Construction of a monument in commemoration of the late Prime Minister
Vo Van Kiet started in Vung Liem town, Vung Liem district, the Mekong
Delta province of Vinh Long on Sept. 6.
Addressing the
ground-breaking ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Kiet was a
talented leader of the Party and State and an outstanding pupil of late
President Ho Chi Minh who had devoted all his life to the national
liberation, country’s reunification and construction.
He also
requested Vinh Long province and Vung Liem district, in particular, to
collect documents and souvenirs relating to the life and revolutionary
cause of the late leader.
Covering an area of 17,000 sq.m, the monument is expected to complete in 2012.
Born
in Vung Liem district in 1922, Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet is considered
Vietnam ’s key economic reformer. He died in 2008 at the age of 85./.