The burial service for General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong took place solemnly at Mai Dich Cemetery in Hanoi at precisely 3pm on July 26.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on July 25 received Donald McKinnon, special envoy of the New Zealand Government, who is in Hanoi to attend the state funeral of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man on July 25 met with Tolstoy Petr Olegovich, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s State Duma (lower house), who is in Vietnam to attend the state funeral of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.