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Former Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu passes away

Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Le Kha Phieu passed away in Hanoi on August 7 morning.
Former Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu passes away ảnh 1Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Le Kha Phieu (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Former General Secretaryof the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Le Kha Phieu passed away in Hanoi on August7 morning.

According to the national board in charge of seniorcadres’ health, the former leader, born in December 1931, died of sickness andold age

Details of his funeral will be announced later.

A native of Dong Son district in the north-centralprovince of Thanh Hoa, Phieu had served as head of the General PoliticalDepartment of the Vietnam People’s Army and was elected General Secretary ofthe CPV Central Committee at the fourth meeting of the eighth tenure. He wasalso a member of the 10th tenure of the National Assembly.

As the top leader of the Party from December 1997 to April 2001, he andthe Party Central Committee, Political Bureau and Secretariat led the wholeParty, people and army to gain remarkable achievements in the national reform,industrialisation, modernisation, construction and defence./.
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