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President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to attend state funeral of late Japanese PM Abe Shinzo

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to attend state funeral of late Japanese PM Abe Shinzo  

 

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, on behalf of Party and State leaders of Vietnam, will attend the state funeral of late Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in Tokyo, Japan, from September 25 - 28, the Foreign Ministry announced on September 22.

The former PM of Japan passed away on July 8 after being shot from behind while campaigning for a candidate of the ruling LDP in the prefecture.

Abe, 67, was Japan's longest-serving PM. He served as the PM from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020./.

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President Ho Chi Minhs experience in Soviet Union crucial to Vietnams revolution: Russian scholar

President Ho Chi Minh’s experience in Soviet Union crucial to Vietnam’s revolution: Russian scholar

The time when President Ho Chi Minh was in the Soviet Union (now Russia) provided him with invaluable experience in mass mobilisation and political organisation that later became instrumental in Vietnam’s revolutionary struggle, according to Dr Anatoly Sokolov from the Oriental Research Institute under the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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