According to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on 7.4.2025, Member of the Politburo and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will lead the senior delegation of the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to attend the former chairman of the Lao Revolutionary People's Party, former President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Khamtay Siphandone in Vientiane, Laos.
Previously, on the morning of April 4, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh led a high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese Government to the Embassy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic in Hanoi to pay a visit to comrade Khamtay Siphandone.
The content of the funeral book of the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh wrote: “The departure of comrade Khamtay Siphandone is a great loss of the Party, the State and the Lao people. Leaders and people of Vietnam lose a big friend, close comrades always strive hard for the revolutionary cause of the two countries of Laos - Vietnam brothers and special relationships in Vietnam - Laos. has devoted my whole life to the revolutionary career of Laos ”.
In order to show mourning comrade Khamtay Siphandone and derived from the special relationship between Vietnam and Laos, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front decided to mourn the mourning of KHAMTAY SIPTAY SIPHANDOne from the 4th and 4th National Fun