Nguyễn Minh Triết | |
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 Nguyễn Minh Triết in 2008 | |
| 7thPresident of Vietnam | |
| In office 27 June 2006 – 25 July 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Nguyễn Tấn Dũng |
| Vice President | Trương Mỹ Hoa Nguyễn Thị Doan |
| Preceded by | Trần Đức Lương |
| Succeeded by | Trương Tấn Sang |
| Chairman of theCouncil for National Defense and Security | |
| In office 27 June 2006 – 25 July 2011 | |
| Deputy | Nguyễn Tấn Dũng |
| Preceded by | Trần Đức Lương |
| Succeeded by | Trương Tấn Sang |
| Secretary of theHo Chi Minh City Party Committee | |
| In office January 2000 – 27 June 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Trương Tấn Sang |
| Succeeded by | Lê Thanh Hải |
| Head of theCentral Mass Mobilization Commission | |
| In office December 1997 – January 2000 | |
| Preceded by | Phan Minh Tánh |
| Succeeded by | Trương Quang Được |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1942-10-08)8 October 1942 (age 83) |
| Political party |  Communist Party of Vietnam (1965–2011) |
| Spouse | Trần Thị Kim Chi |
| Alma mater | Ho Chi Minh City University of Science |
Nguyễn Minh Triết (Vietnamese:[ŋwiən˦ˀ˥mïŋ˧˧t͡ɕiət̚˧˦]; born 8 October 1942) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the seventhPresident of Vietnam from 2006 to 2011.[1] He was elected by theNational Assembly of Vietnam with 464 votes (94%) in June 2006.
Nguyễn Minh Triết was previously the secretary of theCommunist Party of Vietnam inHo Chi Minh City. Thepresidency of Vietnam is a ceremonial position and thePolitburo decides government policy. Triết was the fourth-ranking member of the Politburo from 2006 to 2011.[citation needed] His term as president expired in July 2011. Senior Politburo memberTrương Tấn Sang succeeded him.
At the10th Party Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in April 2006, he was nominated President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and confirmed on 27 June 2006 by the National Assembly. On that day, he succeededTrần Đức Lương. He subsequently proposedNguyễn Tấn Dũng as the new prime minister.
Nguyễn Minh Triết was born on 8 October 1942 in Bến Cát district in Bình Dương province, in a middle-class farming family. In 1957, he went toSaigon to study atPetrus Ky High School, the leading high school in the south. In 1960 Triết studiedMathematics at the University ofSaigon under theSouth Vietnamese government. Here he began to participate in the student movement againstNgo Dinh Diem's government. Later in 1965, he became a member of theCommunist Party of Vietnam in southern Vietnam during theVietnam War that involving theUnited States. He is one of the top leaders of Vietnam who are southerners and one of the few that had not regrouped to the North following the division of the country in 1954 (he was only 12 at the time).[2] In 1992, he became party chief of southernSông Bé Province. He guided the largely agricultural province into an attractive destination forforeign direct investment.
In November 1963, Nguyễn Minh Triết escaped to a war zone working in Sàigòn - Gia Định. He then worked as an accountant and researcher at the Central Committee of the Revolutionary People's Revolutionary Youth Union. On 30 March 1965, Triết was admitted to the Southern Revolutionary People's Party under aliasTrần Phong also known asSáu Phong, and was appointed secretary of the Youth Union Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary League in South Central Committee and went to the battlefield inMỹ Tho Province until 1973. From 1974 to August 1979 he was Deputy Head of the Central Youth Union and Deputy Director of the young Volunteers of the Central Union. In September 1979, he was sent to study at the Nguyễn Ái Quốc Party School and graduated with a Bachelor of Political Science in July 1981. From July 1981 to December 1987, he held the posts of Head of the Youth Volunteer Youth Union; then the head of the Central Committee of the Union; Secretary of the Central Party Committee of the Union inHo Chi Minh City; Member of the Central Executive Committee; Secretary of the Central Committee of theHo Chi Minh Communist Youth Union; Vice Chairman, General Secretary of Vietnam’s Youth Union.[3]
He ascended to the Politburo in 1997 and became Party head of Ho Chi Minh City in 2000. In that position, he oversaw a campaign againstorganized crime andcorruption, including the arrest and execution of underworld kingpin Trương Văn Cam, known asNăm Cam.
From January 1988 to September 1989, Nguyễn Minh Triết was appointed as the Provincial Party Committee Member ofSông Bé Provincial Party Committee. From October 1989 to December 1991, Triết was appointed Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee of, Bình dương and Bình Phước provinces. In the early years of economic renovation,Bình Dương andHo Chi Minh City were fast growing places, attracting a lot of foreign investment capital. At the7th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in June 1991, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. At this conference, he formally renamed Nguyễn Minh Triết. In December 1991, he was elected Secretary of Sông Bé Provincial Party Committee and held the post until December 1996. In July 1992, he was elected Member of the 9th National Assembly as a representative of Sông Bé province. Then, in June 1996, he was re-elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Party at the 8th National Party Congress.[4]
In January 1997, Nguyễn Minh Triết was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee. At that time, the Party Secretary wasTrương Tấn Sang, Member of the Politburo. In December of the same year, he joined withNguyễn Phú Trọng,Phan Diễn, andPhạm Thanh Ngân in the Fourth Plenum of the Executive Committee, in addition to the Politburo. Triết was assigned to be the head of the Central Mobilization Committee. After he moved to another job, Trương Quang Được and Tòng Thị Phóng respectively,Hà Thị Khiết (after the 9th Congress) were assigned to hold the position. In January 2000, Nguyễn Minh Triết was promoted to the position of Party Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City. At the 9th National Party Congress, he was elected to the Central Party Committee and was elected to the Politburo by the Central Committee (April 2001). In May 2002, he was again elected to the 11th National Assembly, but as a delegate of Ho Chi Minh City. In April 2006, he was re-elected as Member of the Politburo 20th.
On 27 June 2006, Nguyễn Minh Triết was elected by the 9th session of the 11th National Assembly as president of theSocialist Republic of Vietnam with the following votes: 464 votes. The result of the election was announced later: Triết officially became the new president with 94.12% of votes (464 delegates).
In June 2007, as president, he made an official visit to theUnited States at the invitation of PresidentGeorge W. Bush. During this trip, Nguyễn Minh Triết met about 800 businessmen inOrange County,California, most of them were of Vietnamese descent.[5] Here he talked about the Vietnamese people, national unity, as well as the fact that the Vietnamese government was not prejudiced by people with different views. There he met with opposition from about two thousand Vietnamese Americans living there, because they believed that the Vietnamese government violated human rights.[6] Also on this trip, he was considered to have altered many of the long-held stereotypes of the US Congressmen with their calm, clever answer, releasing many complex issues. Especially answered the speeches of House SpeakerNancy Pelosi.[7]
"We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of aSocialist-oriented market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people".[8]
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| Preceded by | Chairperson ofAPEC 2006 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chairperson ofASEAN 2010 | Succeeded by |
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