President Trần Đại Quang Preceded by Phùng Quang Thanh General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng | Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc Preceded by Lê Văn Dũng Succeeded by Luong Cuong | |
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President Trương Tấn Sang
Trần Đại Quang Party Communist Party of Vietnam Battles and wars Vietnam War, Cambodian–Vietnamese War Similar Phùng Quang Thanh, Do Ba Ty, Tô Lâm, Nguyen Chi Vinh, Trần Đại Quang | ||
Ngô Xuân Lịch (born 20 April 1954 in Hà Nam) is a Minister of National Defense of Vietnam and Chief of the General Department of Politics of Vietnam.
He was previously Vice Chief of the General Department of Politics (December 2007 – 2011), and a four-star General. He replaced Lê Văn Dũng as Director of the General Department of Politics in March 2011.
Rank
Ngo Xuan Lich was promoted to Major General in 2003, Lieutenant General in 2007, Colonel General in 2011.
On October 10, 2015, he was promoted to General.
On January 28, 2016, he was elected to be a Politburo of Communist Party of Vietnam at its 12th National Congress.
On April 9, 2016, he was appointed as a successor of Phung Quang Thanh as a new Minister of National Defense of Vietnam.
References
Ngô Xuân Lịch Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA