Hanoi (VNA) – Memorialservices for President Tran Dai Quang were  held in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and thePresident’s home province of Ninh Binh on the morning of September 27.

The service held at the NationalFuneral Hall at No5 Tran Thanh Tong Street, Hanoi, was attended by GeneralSecretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong, National AssemblyChairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Acting President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh andStanding Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, along with many former leadersof the Party, State, National Assembly, Government.

The high-level delegation of theLao Party and State led by Politburo member and Vice President PhankhamViphavanh attended the service.

Delivering the funeral oration, PartyGeneral Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized the great contributions thatPresident Tran Dai Quang has made to the Party and the nation’s revolutioncause and to people’s happiness, in his various capacity as a member of theParty Central Committee’s Politburo, President of the Socialist Republic ofVietnam, Chairman of the Council of Defence and Security, head of the centralsteering committee for judicial reform, a National Assembly deputy, and otherpositions.

The Party leader said over morethan 45 years of his career, Quang’s life and work have been closely associatedwith the public security sector and the cause of building and protecting the socialistVietnam.

As a Politburo member, Secretaryof the Central Public Security Party Committee, Minister of Public Security anddeputy of the 13th National Assembly, Tran Dai Quang, together with the CentralPublic Security Party Committee and the leadership of the Ministry of PublicSecurity, led and instructed the institutionalization of the Resolution of the11th Party Congress, the Political Programme on national constructionin the period of transition to socialism in the field of security and socialorder.

His work as the chief of thepeople’s public security forces contributed to maintaining nationalindependence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, serving well the country’ssocio-economic development and external relations.

Since the 11th session of the 13th NA in April 2016, as a Politburo member and SatePresident, Tran Dai Quang and other Party and State leaders led the Party, thenation and the military in effectively carrying out resolutions of the Party,the National Assembly, while exercising his authority as President, Chairman ofthe Council of Defence and Security, and head of the central steering committeefor judicial reform. His work has contributed to promoting the Doi Moi(renovation) cause, developing the socialist-oriented market economy, expandingexternal relations and international integration, strengthening nationaldefence-security, maintaining political and social stability and enhancingVietnam’s role, position and prestige in the international arena.

General Secretary Trong said asone of the key leaders of the Party and State, Tran Dai Quang has alwaysdemonstrated a high sense of responsibility and discipline, protected the party’sunity and solidarity, and always put the interests of the Party and the nationfirst. He was respected and loved by comrades and the people, and respected byinternational friends.

The Party leader offered thedeepest condolences to the family of President Tran Dai Quang over their greatloss.

Quang’s eldest son Tran Quanexpressed thanks to incumbent and former leaders of the Party, State,Government, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, officials of agencies, organisations,local administrations, foreign officials, the people as well as relatives fortheir sympathy.  


The President’s coffin, wrappedin the national flag, was then moved out of the National Funeral Hall to betaken to Ninh Binh.

The burial service will be heldat 15:30 the same day at his home village in Quang Thien commune, Kim Sondistrict, Ninh Binh province.

On September 26 and 27, a totalof 1,658 delegations with around 50,000 persons have paid homage to PresidentTran Dai Quang at three sites in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Ninh Binh.-VNA