Delegations with Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and many other high-ranking officials as heads, paid their last respects to the deceased at the National Funeral Hall in Hanoi. Many former Party and State leaders were also present or sent wreaths to the event.
In the visitor’s notes, Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong as well as Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hailed Binh’s various great and outstanding contributions to the Party and the people of Vietnam, especially in the field of political theory, ideology and culture.
The respect-paying ceremony was followed by a memorial service for Binh who will be buried in his home province of Ha Tinh on February 3.