New Zealand’s Special Envoy to attend Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong’s funeral
(VOVWORLD) - Former Deputy Prime Minister Donald Charles McKinnon will attend Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s funeral in Hanoi this week as a Special Envoy of New Zealand’s Government, New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced on Tuesday.
 New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters (Photo: RNZ) |
“It is important that the Government give due recognition to the significant contributions that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong made to New Zealand-Viet Nam relations,” Mr. Peters said.
The Special Envoy’s attendance is a “demonstration of the deep respect that New Zealand has for the Vietnamese people and its government,” the Foreign Minister noted.
In a message of condolences to President To Lam on Monday, Governor-General of New Zealand Dame Cindy Kiro praised the role of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in the development of relations between the two countries.