Chargé d'affaires Zhou Kan Mourns Passing of Nguyen Phu Trong

2024-07-26 17:30

On the morning of 25 July, Mr. Zhou Kan, Chargé d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia, went to the Vietnamese Embassy in Jakarta to mourn the passing of H.E. Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

Zhou observed a moment of silence before bowing to the portrait of Trong, and wrote down a message of condolences.

Praising Trong as a staunch Marxist and a great leader of the CPV and the Vietnamese people, Zhou said that the Vietnamese people will surely be able to turn grief into strength and continue to make greater achievements in the cause of reform, opening up and socialist development.

H.E. Ta Van Thong, Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia, thanked Zhou for being here to express condolences and said that the Vietnamese side will carry on the legacy of Trong and firmly move Viet Nam-China relations forward.