Vietnam’s top leader Nguyen Phu Trong misses meetings amid health concerns
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Mr Nguyen Phu Trong is the most powerful leader in Vietnam’s one-party political system and regularly receives visiting foreign dignitaries in private meetings.
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HANOI – The head of Vietnam’s Communist Party, Mr Nguyen Phu Trong, is expected on Jan 12 to miss the second state visit of a foreign leader to Hanoi in less than a week amid concerns about his health.
Mr Trong, 79, who has been at the helm of the party since 2011, is the most powerful leader in Vietnam’s one-party political system and regularly receives visiting foreign dignitaries in private meetings.
But he is not scheduled to meet Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo
Mr Trong was also not on the list of Vietnamese leaders who received Laos’ Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone last weekend.
He has not been seen in public since Dec 26, 2023, when he met in Hanoi the head of the Japanese Communist Party, Mr Kazuo Shii.
Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment about Mr Trong’s health. REUTERS
