[ndlr] La disparition du Président de la République socialiste du Viêt-Nam a été annoncée. Selon l’agence VnExpress : “Le président Tran Dai Quang est décédé à l’âge de 62 ans ce matin à Hanoi après une maladie virale rare”.  Voir la vidéo en ligne.

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, the country’s No. 2 after the ruling Communist Party’s leader, died Friday after a serious illness, the government said. He was 61.

Quang passed away despite “utmost efforts to treat him by Vietnamese and foreign professors and doctors and care by the party and state leaders,” the statement said. It said Quang died at a military hospital in Hanoi but did not elaborate on his illness.

The state-run online newspaper VnExpress quoted a former health minister and the head of a national committee in charge of leaders’ health, Nguyen Quoc Trieu, as saying that Quang had contracted a rare and toxic virus since July last year and had traveled to Japan six times for treatment. He did not specify the virus.

Trieu said the president lapsed into a deep coma hours after being admitted to the National Military Hospital 108 on Thursday afternoon.

Lire la suite : The Washington Post, 21/09/2018. Kham/Pool Photo via AP, File.

Parcours biographique : Vietnam +

Voir également :

Mort du président vietnamien, Tran Dai Quang, qui était gravement malade, Le Monde, 21/09/2018. Figure du camp conservateur au sein du régime communiste, il s’est éteint vendredi à l’âge de 61 ans.

Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang dies aged 61, BBC Vietnamese, 21/09/2018.

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