General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong visits Laos and Cambodia

General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong. Source: VNA

At the invitation of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Bounnhang Vorachith and the invitation of King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, on the morning of February 24, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi for an official friendship visit to the Lao People's Democratic Republic and a state visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Joining the delegation with General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong were comrades: Tong Thi Phong - Politburo member, Permanent Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly; Truong Thi Mai - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Mass Mobilization Commission; Pham Binh Minh - Politburo member, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Nguyen Van Nen - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chief of the Central Office; Hoang Binh Quan - Party Central Committee member, Head of the Central External Relations Commission; Dao Viet Trung - Party Central Committee member, Head of the Office of the President; Nguyen Chi Dung - Party Central Committee member, Minister of Planning and Investment; Dinh Tien Dung - Party Central Committee member, Minister of Finance; Nguyen Van The - Party Central Committee member, Minister of Transport; Pham Hong Ha - Party Central Committee member, Minister of Construction; Nguyen Thanh Phong - Party Central Committee member, Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City; Trinh Van Chien - Party Central Committee member, Secretary of Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee; Vo Thi Anh Xuan - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of An Giang Provincial Party Committee; Senior Lieutenant General Tran Don - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of National Defense; Senior Lieutenant General Bui Van Nam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Public Security; Ho Mau Ngoat - Assistant to the General Secretary and President.

Participating in the delegation in each country were Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Laos Nguyen Ba Hung and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Cambodia Vu Quang Minh.