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Name | Nguyễn Tấn Dũng |
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Caption | Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng in 2009 |
Order | Prime Minister of Vietnam |
President | Nguyễn Minh Triết |
Deputy | Nguyễn Sinh Hùng |
1blankname | General Secretary |
1namedata | Nông Đức Mạnh |
Term start | 27 June 2006 |
Predecessor | Phan Văn Khải |
Birth date | November 17, 1949 |
Birth place | Cà Mau, Vietnam |
Party | Communist Party of Vietnam |
Dũng previously served as First Deputy Prime Minister from September 29, 1997. He was also the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam between 1998 and 1999. He was admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam on June 10, 1967, then joined the army as a full-fledged fighter and was subsequently elected a member of the Party’s Politburo at the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth National Party Congresses.
He is the first senior Vietnamese communist leader who was born after the August Revolution in 1945 and the youngest Vietnamese Prime Minister (57 years old when he assumed the office). He is also a native southerner and remained in the southern region throughout the Vietnam War (he was only 5 when the country was divided in 1954).
He was reelected by the Communist Party on July 25, 2007.
In 2009, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made a two day visit to Russia where he signed a multi-billion dollar arms deal.. At a party congress in January 2011, Dũng was nominated for another term as prime minister, but lost out to Trương Tấn Sang in the competition for overall party leadership.
Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:People from Ca Mau Province Category:Current national leaders Category:Prime Ministers of Vietnam Category:Vietnamese communists Category:Communist Party of Vietnam politicians
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