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Pham Van Dong (March 1, 1906 – April 29, 2000) was an associate of Ho Chi Minh. He served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 through 1976, and was Prime Minister of reunified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1987. March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Official portrait of Hồ Chí Minh Hồ Chí Minh (May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946-1955) and President (1955-1969) of North Vietnam. ... Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN), or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cá»™ng Hòa), also known as North Vietnam, was proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, September 2nd1945 and was recognized by the Peoples Republic of China and the... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


On May 2, 2000, the Vietnamese Communist Party and the Vietnamese government announced that Mr. Pham Van Dong, former Politburo member, former prime minister, died in Hanoi on April 29, 2000 after several months of serious illness at the age of 94. Commemoration and funeral service were held on May 6, 2000 in Hanoi. May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội; Han tu: 河内), estimated population 3,083,800 (2004), is the capital of Vietnam and was the capital of North Vietnam from 1954 to 1976. ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ...


According to the Hanoi official announcement, Mr. Pham Van Dong was born into a civil servant family in Duc Tan village, Mo Duc district, in Quang Ngai province on the central coast on March 1, 1906. Quang Ngai (Vietnamese Quảng Ngãi) is a province in south-central Vietnam, on the coast of South China Sea. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...


In 1925 at the age of 18, he joined patriotic students to stage a school sit-in to mourn the death of the famous patriotic scholar Phan Chu Trinh. In 1926, he traveled to Guangzhou in southern China to attend a training course run by Nguyễn Ái Quốc (later to be known as Ho Chi Minh) before being admitted as a member of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, the predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Phan Chu Trinh (His name has no tones, this is a correct spelling) also known as Phan Châu Trinh (1872 - 1926) was a famous early 20th century Vietnamese nationalist. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Location within China Canton, China redirects here. ...


In 1929, he worked for the association in Saigon. In the same year, he was arrested, tried by the French colonial authorities and was sentenced ten years in prison. 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành Chí Minh) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. ...


He served the term in Poulo Condor Island Prison until 1936 when he was released thanks to the general amnesty granted by the government of the Popular Front in France after its electoral success. 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...


He joined Indochinese Communist Party in 1940 and then continued to take part in Ho Chi Minh's activities . After Ho Chi Minh rose to power during the August, 1945 popular uprising, Pham Van Dong was appointed minister of finance of the newly established government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). But he had been better known to people outside the country since the time he was appointed the head of the Vietnamese delegation to the Vietnam-France negotiations at Fontainebleau (France) in May 1946. 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN), or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa), also known as North Vietnam, was proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, September 2nd1945 and was recognized by the Peoples Republic of China and the... Location within France Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...


In May 1954, he was leading the delegation of the Ho Chi Minh government to the Geneva Conference on Indochina as Vice-Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Vietnamese forces lead by his government had imposed a humiliating defeat on the French at Dien Bien Phu in spite of the latter's substantial support received from the United States. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German: //, Italian: Ginevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland, and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... Dien Bien Phu (Điện Biên Phủ) is a small town in northwestern Vietnam in the province of Điện Biên. ...


At the 5th session of the DRV First National Congress (1955), Dong was appointed prime minister. He stayed in this position for the next 32 years until 1987 when his retirement was approved by the 6th Party National Congress. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


As an advisor to the Party Central Committee from 1987 to 1997, he often urged the party to have more efforts to stop corruption. He kept giving advice on the similar issues even when he was no more the advisor of the central committee and became so ill that he had to have someone else write down his words on papers. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In general, Mr. Pham Van Dong had been a staunch communist and nationalist leader, the most faithful disciple of Ho Chi Minh and a major figure in Vietnam's fight for independence and unity. Throughout his political career, he tried to maintain his neutral position in the various conflicts within the party.


See also

Preceded by:
Vu Van Mau - Prime Minister of South Vietnam and Nguyễn Hữu Thọ - Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam		 Prime Minister of Vietnam
1976–1987		 Succeeded by:
Pham Hung

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Pham Van Dong | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited (1712 words)
Pham Van Dong, who has died aged 94 - on the day before the 25th anniversary of his country's final victory in the Vietnam war - was a loyal lieutenant of the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, and one of the 20th century's longest serving prime ministers.
Dong was among the most well-known of the group of shadowy leaders in Hanoi, particularly during the war with the US in the late 1960s, when he gave many interviews expressing North Vietnam's determination to defeat its massively more powerful adversary.
Pham Van Dong was born in Quang Ngai province, in central Vietnam.
Pham Van Dong (974 words)
Pham Van Dong, who led the Vietnamese Communists' delegation to the Geneva peace talks in 1954 that ended the French war in Indochina and then served as Hanoi's prime minister for three decades, died April 29th, a day before the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, The Associated Press reported from Vietnam yesterday.
Dong returned to Vietnam to organize Communist cells, but was soon caught by the French and sent to the dreaded prison island of Poulo Condore in the South China Sea where he was confined for seven years.
Dong became a founding member of the Viet Minh, a nationalist organization whose domination by the Communists was disguised to draw in a wide variety of patriotic Vietnamese disgruntled by French rule.
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