Biden announces Presidential Delegation to Viet Nam to honor passing of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

Antony J. Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, will lead the delegation to Ha Noi on on Saturday, July 27, 2024.

Viet Nam held State funeral for Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on July 25-26. His passing is a huge and irreparable loss to our Party, our nation, and our people.

More than 5,600 delegations with over 252,000 people formally paid respect to Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the National Funeral Hall in Ha Noi, the Reunification Hall in Ho Chi Minh City, and his hometown in Lai Da village, Ha Noi during the two-day State funeral.

General Secretary of the LPRP Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisulith, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Wang Huning, European Union (EU) High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof, former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and New Zealand's former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don McKinnon travelled to Ha Noi to attend the funeral.

In the eulogy delivered at memorial service for Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, President To Lam emphasized: Throughout nearly 60 years of diverse and unwavering revolutionary work, Professor, Doctor, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, with erudite and sharp wisdom, has a valuable system of ideology and theory on Viet Nam's revolutionary path in the new era for the entire Party, army and people.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's valuable legacy has consolidated the strong trust in the path towards socialism, significantly contributing to the development of the world communist movement and Maxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's ideology in the present era.

The legacy left by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will last forever in the history of Viet Nam and be inherited and further brought into play in the cause of renewal, thereby successfully realizing the goal of building a peaceful, independent, united, democratic, prosperous, powerful, civilized, and happy Viet Nam that you wished and strived for throughout your whole life, President To Lam affirmed./.