The leaders included Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, President Truong Tan Sang, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung and President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan.
Former Party, State, Government and National Assembly officials were also present at the function.
At the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the leaders expressed their deepest gratitude for the late President’s great services to the nation’s revolutionary cause.
Later, they laid a wreath at the nearby monument to heroic martyrs to commemorate those who laid down their lives for national liberation.
Also on August 18, a delegation of the Central Police Party Committee under the Ministry of Public Security led by Politburo member and Minister Tran Dai Quang paid homage to President Ho Chi Minh and war martyrs.