VietNamNet Bridge - Lieutenant General Ngo Xuan Lich has been appointed as the Chair of the General Department for Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army.

Minister of Defense, General Phung Quang Thanh, granted the promotion signed by President Nguyen Minh Triet on February 22nd, to Lieutenant General Lich on March 1.

Lieutenant General Lich, Secretary of the Central Party Committee, was the Vice Chair of the General Department for Politics before he took the newly-appointed position. His predecessor is General Le Van Dung.

Lieutenant General Lich was born in 1954 in Ha Nam Province. Before assuming the Vice Chairmanship of the General Department of politics in December 2007, he was the political commissar of the Military Zone 3. In 2006, he was elected to the 10th Party Central Committee. At the 11th Party Congress in January 2011, he was re-elected to the Party Central Committee and the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat. He is the 8th Chairman of the General Department of Politics.

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