Nouhak Phoumsavanh

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Nouhak Phoumsavanh also Phoumsavan (born April 9, 1910 in Ban Phaluka , Mukdahan Province , Thailand (then Siam ); † September 9, 2008 in Vientiane ) was a longtime communist politician in Laos . For a long time he was considered number two in the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LRVP). He was President of the Supreme People's Council from 1989 to 1992 and President of the State from 1992 to 1998.

Nouhak Phoumsavan was born in a small town on the Thai side of the Mekong River . He was of partial Vietnamese descent and also married a Vietnamese woman. He joined the resistance movement against French colonial rule in Laos in 1945. In 1955 he was one of the founding members of the Lao People's Party (later LRVP). In it he was long considered number two behind Secretary General Kaysone Phomvihane . In 1958 he was elected to the National Assembly, but imprisoned in 1959 after the right wing seized power and the outbreak of the Lao Civil War . After a year he was able to flee together with the “red prince” Souphanouvong .

After the Communists came to power in 1975, he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. In 1989 he became President of the Supreme People's Assembly (then Parliament's name). He chaired the committee that drafted the new Laos Constitution, which came into force in 1991. After the death of longtime leader Kaysone Phomvihane, Nouhak became President of Laos in 1992. At 87, he was one of the world's oldest heads of state when he stepped down in 1998. At the 6th party congress of the LRVP in 1996 and again at the 7th congress in 2001, he was elected advisor to the executive committee of the party's central committee. After his death, a five-day state mourning was ordered.

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  1. ↑ "Biography of Comrade Nouhak Phoumsavanh" ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Lao News Agency. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kplnet.net
  2. ↑ Laos: Presidents in Rulers
  3. ↑ "Lao former president Nouhak Phoumsavanh dies at 94" DPA ( The Earth Times ), September 10, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Phoumsavanh, Nouhak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phoumsavan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Laotian politician, president of the country
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Ban Phaluka , Mukdahan Province, Thailand
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2008
Place of death Vientiane