(VOVWORLD) -Respect-paying ceremonies for General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong was held on Friday at Vietnamese embassies and diplomatic representative offices in many countries around the world.
In Thailand, delegations of international organizations and foreign embassies such as China, North Korea, France, Germany, and Denmark plus Thai ministries, sectors, businessmen associations, companies, overseas Vietnamese, and Buddhist organizations were present at the ceremony to pay tribute to Party leader Trong.
In Hungary, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary, Boglárka Illés, Chairman of the Hungarian Workers' Party, Gyula Thumer, diplomatic delegations of countries such as Laos, Malaysia, Japan, Russia, Canada, Iran, Nigeria, and the Palestinian State, working delegations of the Vietnam Academy of Sciences, the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations, representatives of associations, unions, and many members of the Vietnamese community, students and workers living, studying and working in Hungary, attended the ceremony and wrote a funeral book in memory of the General Secretary.
In Bangladesh, a total of 27 delegations from the Government and political parties, diplomatic representatives, friendship associations and friends, and Vietnamese expats visited, expressed condolences, wrote a funeral book in remembrance of the General Secretary. Many friends, local and international organizations sent condolence messages to the embassy.
Representatives of the Belgian Royal Family, politicians, diplomats, representatives of diplomatic agencies, and the Vietnamese community paid tribute to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the Vietnamese Embassy in Brussels and wrote a condolence book. Belgian Royal Secretary General Dominique Mineur expressed her deep condolences, saying that the passing of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is a great loss for the Vietnamese people.
Acting Director of the Asia and Oceania Department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gerrie Willems, representatives of the Royal Family and the Dutch Government visited and wrote in the condolence book at the Vietnamese Embassy in The Hague.