Hanoi (VNA) – Leaders and staff members of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) expressed their respect for and great grief over the passing of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at a commemoration held on July 22.
The event at the VNA headquarters in Hanoi was connected with the agency’s representative offices in the central - Central Highlands and southern regions and the ITAXA One Member Co. Ltd based in Ho Chi Minh City via videoconference.
The Party leader passed away on July 19 at the age of 80.
Nguyen Phu Trong was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee in the 11th, 12th, and 13th tenures; Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) in the 11th and 12th tenures; President of Vietnam; member of the Party Central Committee from the 7th to 13th tenures; member of the Politburo from the 8th to 13th tenures; deputy of the NA from the 11th to 15th tenures; and Editor-in-chief of the Communist Review from August 1991 to August 1996.
During nearly 60 years of working, he made outstanding contributions to the glorious revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation.
In every position, Trong always paid special attention to the VNA. He was the leader who launched the connection of the VNA’s portal with the internet in August 1998, and presented the Ho Chi Minh Order to the agency on September 15, 2010.
The leader also visited the VNA for many times during which he gave profound directions and offered encouragement to the agency's leaders and staff, calling them pioneering soldiers in the ideological and cultural front of the Party who excellently performed the task of maintaining the uninterrupted flow of mainstream news.
Generations of the VNA’s leaders and reporters have deep respect for the Party leader and are always grateful for his leadership, trust, and facilitation, which have helped the VNA to develop further and fulfill its role as the key national multimedia news agency./.
