Heads of nations and political parties worldwide have sent congratulatory messages to newly elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong.

The Vietnamese Party chief received greetings from:
- The Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Raul Castro
- Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong
- President of the Republic of Korea Lee Myung-bak
- National Secretary of the French Communist Party Pierre Laurent
- Chairman of the Party “A Just Russia ” Sergei Mironov
- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Pyotr Simonenko
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of India Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan
- Chairman of the Mongolian People’s Party Batbold Sukhbaatar
- Head of the National Congress Party, President of the Republic of Sudan Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir./.