Viet Tan
Ly Thai Hung joined the Viet Tan in 1982 and has held various leadership positions since then. In 1993 he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Overseas Party Branch. In 2001 he was elected General Secretary of the Party and at the 6th Congress of the Party in September 2006 he was re-elected for the 2006-2011 term.
In October 2007 on a trip through Europe, he met with Polish journalist Robert Krzyston, one of the leaders of The Committee for Freedom of Speech in Poland, a pro-democracy organization with members being mostly intellectuals and reporters. While in Warsaw, Mr. Hung appeared on Radio Warsaw FM 106 to discuss the democracy movement in Vietnam. The trip concluded with a meeting with Dr. Bogdan Borusewicz, Chairman of the Polish Senate.
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