Cuban Parliament mourns death of Vietnam's top leader

Havana, Jul 19 (RHC) The National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) of Cuba expressed regret over the death of the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, who died at the age of 80.

During the third ordinary period of sessions of the legislative body, its president, Esteban Lazo, asked to observe a minute of silence in honor of the Vietnamese leader and recognized his revolutionary trajectory.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel also mourned the death of Phu Trong and extended heartfelt condolences to the Vietnamese people, relatives and loved ones. “A faithful friend of Cuba has died,” the president wrote on X.

Nguyen Phu Trong was born on April 14, 1944 and since the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (2011) he served as General Secretary of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Military Commission, positions he held until his death.

Phu Trong deserved the Order of the Golden Star, the highest honor awarded by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to people with significant and particularly distinguished contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation, and the medal of Resistance against the United States of the first category.

The Party Central Committee, the National Assembly, the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Government and the Fatherland Front Central Committee will issue a special announcement on the organization of national mourning for the Party leader, an official note released in Hanoi said. (Source: Prensa Latina)