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PM pays respect to late government leaders

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh offered incense in tribute to late government leaders Pham Hung, Vo Van Kiet and Phan Van Khai and visited their families in Ho Chi Minh City on January 20, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival - the biggest and longest festival of Vietnamese people in a year.
PM pays respect to late government leaders ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh offers incense in tribute to late Chairman of the Council of Ministers (now PM) Pham Hung (1912 – 1988). (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh offered incense in tribute to late government leaders Pham Hung, Vo Van Kiet and Phan Van Khai and visited their families in Ho Chi Minh City on January 20, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival - the biggest and longest festival of Vietnamese people in a year.

At the respective houses of late Chairman of the Councilof Ministers (now PM) Pham Hung (1912 – 1988) and late PM Vo VanKiet (1922 – 2008) in District 3, PM Chinh expressed his gratitude for theirsignificant contributions to the country’s cause of national construction and protection.

Comrade Pham Hung joined the youth movement at the age of 16 and twoyears later became one of the first members of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)in the South. Later, he served as a member of the Party Central Committee andthe Politburo for several successive tenures. In June 1987, the NationalAssembly chose him as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

PM pays respect to late government leaders ảnh 2PM Chinh and a family member of late PM Vo Van Kiet. (Photo: VNA)
Comrade Vo Van Kiet started participating in revolutionaryactivities at the age of 16. During his life he went on to serve in manyimportant positions in both the Party and Government. At the 6th National PartyCongress, Kiet's ideas and proposals regarding promoting agriculturalproduction and goods production were included into the congress' document,contributing to formulating the Party's Doi Moi (renewal) policy, opening up aperiod of strong and stable development of the country.

At the house of late PM Phan Van Khai (1933 – 2018) in CuChi district, PM Chinh stressed that as the head of the government, then PM Khai had made manyimportant contributions to Vietnam’s reform of legal institutions and integration,especially in economy.

PM pays respect to late government leaders ảnh 3PM Chinh offers incense in tribute to late PM Phan Van Khai. (Photo: VNA)
Comrade Phan Van Khai joined the revolution in 1947 and the CPV onJuly 15, 1959. He was a member of the CPV Central Committee and Politburomember in many consecutive tenures and the PM from 1997 to 2006. Throughout 70years of revolutionary activities, he made great contributions to therevolutionary cause of the CPV and the nation./.
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