Leaders around the world have extended their congratulations to
Vietnam on the occasion of its 68th National Day (September 2).
Among those were General Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese President Xi Jinping,
Chairman of the Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing
Committee Zhang Dejiang and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
From Laos , General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary
Party and President Chummaly Sayasone, Prime Minister Thoongsinh
Thammavong and National Assembly Chairwoman Pani Yathotou sent their
congratulations to their Vietnamese counterparts.
Greetings also came from Cambodia’s Acting Head of State Chea Sim,
Prime Minister Hun Sen, Acting President of the Senate Say Chhum and
National Assembly President Heng Samrin; and Raul Castro Ruz, who is the
First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party Central Committee and
President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba.
The list of the congratulators also included Russian President
Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Chairwoman of the
Federation Council (Upper House) of Russia’s Federal Assembly Valentina
Matviyenko, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly
Kim Yong Nam and Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju of the People’s Democratic
Republic of Korea (DPRK), and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Tun
Abdul Razak, President Thein Sein and Vice Presidents Sai Mauk Kham and
Nyan Tun of Myanmar , Singaporean President Tony Tan Keng Yam and Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and King Bhumibol Adjulyadej and Prime
Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of Thailand also took the occasion to
extend their congratulations to Vietnam .
On
this occasion, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh also received
congratulatory messages from his Chinese, Lao, Cambodian, Cuban,
Russian, Malaysian, Myanmar, Singaporean, Thai and DPRK counterparts.-VNA