The Cuban Ambassador to Chile writes in the condolence book at the Vietnamese Embassy in Chile. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi, (VNA) – Largenumbers of foreign officials, diplomats, friends and overseas Vietnamese aroundthe world paid tribute to former General Secretary of the Communist Party ofVietnam Do Muoi at Vietnamese Embassies around the world.
Do Muoi, who passed away inHanoi on October 1 at the age of 101, served as General Secretary of the CPVCentral Committee from June 1991 to December 1997.
Vietnam holds a State funeral and two days ofnational mourning for him on October 6 and 7.
In Chile, after the VietnameseEmbassy opened a condolence book on October 5 (local time), a representativefrom the Chilean foreign minister Juan Carlos Barrientos and President of theChile-Vietnam Cultural Institute Ángela Margarita Jeria Gómez were among theguests who came to pay last respects to the deceased Vietnamese party leader.
Ambassadors and diplomats fromthe embassies of Russia, Cuba, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,El Salvador, Brazil, Venezuela and Turkey also paid tribute and wrote in thefuneral book.
At the tribute ceremony held bythe Vietnamese Embassy in the Czech Republic, the embassy staff were joined byrepresentatives from the Communist Party of Bohemia and Morava, ambassadors anddiplomats of ASEAN countries, Japan, Russia, the Palestine, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran,Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Libya, Ghana, andVietnamese associations in Europe and the Czech Republic.
A representative from the CommunistParty of Bohemia and Morava wrotein the funeral book: “On behalf of the leader of the Communist Party of Bohemiaand Morava and Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies Vojtech Filip, weoffer deepest condolences to the Vietnamese people over the loss of a great son,a great politician who is also a friend of the Czech Republic.”
US Ambassdor to Myanmar Scot Marciel writes in the funeral book at the Vietnamese Embassy in Myanmar (Photo: VNA) Similar events were held andfuneral books opened at the Vietnamese Embassies in Germany, Belgium, Ukraine,Myanmar and Israel on October 4 and 5. Most funeral books will remain openthrough October 6.-VNA
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