The General Assembly of the United Nations held a minute’s silence to remember Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, who passed away on September 21 in Hanoi.

Participants at the 3rd plenary session of the UN General Secretary pay a minute's silence to remember President Tran Dai Quang

Before opening the 3rd plenary session of the UN General Assembly with the participation of 193 member nations, the General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces announced the death of the Vietnamese head of State and extended deep condolences to the President’s family, and the Government and people of Vietnam.

She asked the participants to devote a minute of silence to remember the Vietnamese leader.

Head of the Vietnamese permanent delegation to the UN Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy expressed thanks to international friends for their sympathy over the grief and great loss of the Vietnamese people at the sudden death of President Tran Dai Quang.

Earlier the same day, the spokesman of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a statement saying that the Secretary-General was saddened to learn of the death of President Tran Dai Quang of Vietnam and presents his deepest sympathies to the President’s family and to the Government and people of Vietnam.

 “A friend of the United Nations and an important promoter of Vietnam’s development, President Quang will be long remembered in his country and beyond,” the statement said.

 President Tran Dai Quang  passed away at 10:05am on September 21 in Hanoi at the age of 62 due to serious illness.

He was elected State President of Vietnam at the 11th session of the 13th National Assembly on April 2, 2016.

President of the United Nations General Assembly’s 73rd session Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces informs the death of Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang. She sends her deepest condolences to President Quang’s family, Government and Vietnamese people Representatives of 193 UN member states stand in silence in memory of President Tran Dai Quang Only a few days before his death, President Tran Dai Quang was busy with important activities in the role of the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang chaired the sixth meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reforms on September 15. President Tran Dai Quang hosted a reception for Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court of China Zhou Qiang in Hanoi on September 19. President Tran Dai Quang at the meeting with Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court of China Zhou Qiang President Tran Dai Quang received heads of delegations to the 14th Assembly of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI 14) in Hanoi on September 19.  President Tran Dai Quang received heads of delegations to the ASOSAI 14 in Hanoi on September 19.  President Tran Dai Quang at the meeting with heads of delegations to the ASOSAI 14 in Hanoi on September 19.  President Tran Dai Quang on September 20 sent a letter to children nationwide to wish them a warm mid-autumn festival.

VNA.