The memorial service for Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the National Funeral Hall as national mourning etiquette is held on Friday.- Photo: VNA/VNS
HANOI: A memorial service for General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, was held at 1pm on Friday (July 26) at the National Funeral Hall at 5 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi.
Simultaneous services were also organised at his hometown in Dong Hoi Commune, Dong Anh District, Hanoi, and the Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City.
Among the leaders attending the service at the National Funeral Hall were State President To Lam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, Party Central Committee's Secretariat Standing Member Luong Cuong, and former high-ranking Party and State officials.
Delivering the funeral eulogy, State President To Lam said the passing of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is a huge and irreparable loss for our Party, our nation, and our people.
"Our country has lost a talented leader.
"The world communist and progressive movement has lost a sharp theorist.
"International friends have lost a sincere friend and close comrade.
"The family, clan, and homeland in Dong Hoi have lost an outstanding son," he said.
After nearly 60 years of rich and persistent revolutionary activities, Professor, Doctor, and Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, "with his scholarly and sharp intellect, left behind a valuable ideological and theoretical system about Vietnam's revolutionary path in the new era."
He strongly inspired and led the entire Party, people, and army with intelligence, humanistic spirit, noble compassion, strong will, and determination.
He also had the personality and honour of a communist soldier who wholeheartedly served the Fatherland and the people with the mindset that “Honour is the most noble and sacred thing.”
President Lam emphasised that throughout his life of revolutionary activities, building and rectifying the Party and political system held a particularly important position to Trong.
Under his leadership, for the first time, our Party issued a thematic resolution on building and perfecting a law-governed socialist state of the people, by the people, and for the people.
As State President and Chairman of the National Assembly, Trong was always concerned with building a legislative body that is truly the highest representative body of the people, truly democratic, and acts as a representative of the people and their legitimate rights and interests, Lam said.
Lam hailed Trong for possessing a profound and sharp political vision.
The Party leader elevated the level of strategic thinking, creating new developments for Vietnamese defence, security, and foreign affairs with the imprint of “bamboo diplomacy.”
He was always steadfast in the viewpoint that regards the people as the root, “the people are the subject, the centre of the doi moi (renewal) process."
The casket of Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong, wrapped in the national flag, then left the National Funeral Hall to make way to Mai Dịch Cemetery for the burial service at 3pm. - Vietnam News/ANN
