Nguyễn Mạnh Cầm
Nguyễn Mạnh Cầm (born June 15, 1929 in Hưng Dũng, Hưng Nguyên, Vinh , Nghệ An , French Indochina , today: Vietnam ) is a Vietnamese diplomat and politician of the Communist Party of Vietnam KPV (Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam) , who under was foreign minister from 1991 to 2000 and vice-premier of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam between 1997 and 2002 .
Life
Nguyễn Mạnh Cầm became a member of the Communist Party of Indochina (Đảng Cộng sản Đông Dương) in 1946 and subsequently completed a Russian course in China . On his return he entered the foreign service and in 1952 became an interpreter for Nguyễn Lương Bằng , Vietnam's first ambassador to the Soviet Union . He then worked in the Department for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Foreign Ministry and at the Embassy in France . In 1973 he became ambassador to the Hungarian People's Republic and stayed there until 1976. On March 18, 1977, he took over the post as ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and was accredited as such until 1981 as ambassador to Austria , Switzerland and Iran . In 1981 he became Vice Minister for Foreign Trade and was then Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991. In the meantime he was on the VI. Congress (December 15-18, 1986) elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam KPV (Vietng Cộng sản Việt Nam) .
In August 1991 Nguyễn Mạnh Cầm succeeded Nguyễn Cơ Thạch as Foreign Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and held this office until he was replaced in February 2000 by Nguyễn Dy Niên . On November 6, 1993, he also became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, the highest management body of the CPV. He was confirmed as a member of the Politburo at the 8th Party Congress (June 28 to July 1, 1996) and the 4th Plenum of the Central Committee on December 22, 1997 and was a member of this body until April 22, 2001. In addition, he became Vice-Prime Minister in 1997 with responsibility for economics and held this office until he was replaced by Vũ Khoan in 2002. In December 2005, he replaced Vũ Oanh as President of the Student Promotion Agency .
Background literature
- Online books
- Michael Leifer: Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia. Routledge, 2013, ISBN 1-1351-2945-2 .
- Duncan McCargo: Rethinking Vietnam. Routledge, 2004, ISBN 1-1343-7440-2 .
- Cynthia J. Levy, Jeffrey D. Schultz: Global Links: A Guide to People and Institutions Worldwide. Routledge, 2013, ISBN 1-1359-3310-3 .
- S. Balme, M. Sidel: Vietnam's New Order: International Perspectives on the State and Reform in Vietnam. Springer, 2016, ISBN 0-2306-0197-9 .
- B. Hunter: The Statesman's Year-Book 1997-8. Springer, 2016, ISBN 0-2302-7126-X .
Web links
- Entry in rulers.org
- Vietnam: Foreign Ministers
- Party Congresses and important plenary sessions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), the ruling party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amit Das Gupta, Tim Geiger, Matthias Peter, Fabian Hilfrich, Mechthild Lindemann: 1977 , Walter de Gruyter, 2013, p. 155, ISBN 3-4867-1810-X
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nguyễn Mạnh Cầm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hưng Dũng, Hưng Nguyên, Vinh , Nghệ An , French Indochina , today: Vietnam |