Hanoi (VNA) – Devoting his whole life to the revolutionary cause, formerPolitburo member and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of VietnamCentral Committee Do Muoi was a prime example of a steadfast communist.

Comrade Do Muoi, who was born on February 2,1917, passed away at 23:12 on October 1 at the Military Hospital 108 inHanoi.

During his life-long revolutionary career, healways fulfilled tasks assigned by the Party, State and people, firmly held thevirtues of a communist and dedicated all his efforts to the nation and thepeople.

At the age of 19, comrade Do Muoi joined thePopular Front movement. He became a member of the Indochinese Communist Partyin 1939. In 1941, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison at Hoa LoPrison in Hanoi by the French colonialists. In March 1945, he escaped from theprison and continued revolutionary activities by taking part in the PartyCommittee of then Ha Dong province and directly leading the uprising to seizepower in Ha Dong.

Comrade Do Muoi held many leading positions inthe Party and the administration, including Secretary of the Party Committees insome northern provinces, Chairman of the Administrative and ResistanceCommittee, Political Commissar of the High Command of the Joint Zone III,Secretary of the regional Party Committee, Chairman of the ResistanceCommittee, and Political Commissar of the High Command of the Red River’s leftbank region during the resistance war against France. Later, he served as headof some ministries, sectors and the Government and became leader of the Party. Hewas also a National Assembly deputy in the 2nd and from the 4th to the 9thtenures.

Working in many different fields andexperiencing ups and downs of the national development process, comrade Do Muoiestablished himself as a firm and decisive leader who had close relations withthe people.

From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, as VicePresident and then President of the Council of Ministers, he, together withmany other leaders and officials, proposed to the Party and Government manycreative solutions to promote democracy in economic development and graduallyreform the country’s economic development model.

While serving as General Secretary of theCommunist Party of Vietnam Central Committee from June 1991 to December 1997,he joined hands with the Party Central Committee, the Politburo and theSecretariat in leading the whole Party, people and army to continue the reformpolicy and the cause of national construction and protection.

In recent years, despite his old age, comrade DoMuoi continued to be updated on the country’s situation and gave opinions tothe Party and the State, thereby contributing to national development.-VNA