Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong visits President Ho Chi Minh's relic site

Senior Vietnamese leaders paid floral tribute to President HCM at his mausoleum in Hanoi on Thursday in anticipation of the upcoming 82^nd anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Lunar New Year Festival. The delegation included Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, State President Truong Tan Sang, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung and President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Huynh Dam. The same day, Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh and some senior military officers laid a wreath at President HCM’s mausoleum and the Monument for War Martyrs in Hanoi.