Vietnam commemorates late PM Vo Van Kiet
VOV.VN - A delegation of the Vietnamese Party and State led by Politburo member and Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh laid a wreath and offered incense at late Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet’s tomb in Ho Chi Minh City on November 22 on his centenary birth anniversary.
Among the officials on hand were Politburo member, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, and Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics Nguyen Xuan Thang; Politburo member, Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen; Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia; Deputy Minister of National Defense Vo Minh Luong; Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Phan Van Mai; and Secretary of the Vinh Long Provincial Party Committee Bui Van Nghiem.
The late PM, who hails from southern Vinh Long province, was an excellent student of great President Ho Chi Minh. He is known as the architect of Vietnam’s economic reform in the 1990s.
Kiet served as Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1991 to 1997, and died in June 2008 at the age of 86.
A national symposium on the late PM’s contributions to national development is scheduled to take place in Ho Chi Minh City on November 22.