Photos of Do Muoi with Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong

Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Do Muoi passed away at 23:12 on October 1, 2018, and he will be given a State funeral with two days of national mourning.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong (L) presented the ‘75 years of Party membership’ insignia to former General Secretary of the CPV Central Committee Do Muoi at a ceremony in Hanoi in January 2014 (Photo: VNA)

Do Muoi joined revolutionary activities in 1936 and became a Party member in June 1939.(Photo: VNA)

General Secretary Trong visited Do Muoi in Hanoi in February 2016 on the occasion of the former General Secretary's 100th birthday (Photo: VNA)

At the 7th National Party Congress in June 1991, Do Muoi was re-elected as a member of the Party Central Committee and the Political Bureau, and held the position of General Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Military Party Committee (Photo: VNA)

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General Secretary Trong extended greetings to Do Muoi in Hanoi in early  February this year on the occasion of the 88th founding anniversary of the CPV and the 2018 Lunar New Year (Photo: VNA)

The funeral of Do Muoi will be organised in the national mourning etiquette. He will be laid in state at the National Funeral Hall, No. 5 Tran Thanh Tong Street, Hanoi (Photo: VNA)

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