Ha Noi (VNA) - Nguyen Minh Triet was re-elected State President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam at the on-going first session of the 12th National Assembly on July 24.

Following is his brief biography:

- Born on October 8, 1942.

- Native land: Phu An Commune, Ben Cat District, Binh Duong province
- Admitted to the Communist Party of Viet Nam on March 30, 1965. Became full Party member on March 30, 1966.

- Education: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.

Summary of his career:

- 1960 to November 1963: Student majoring in Mathematics at university, took part in the Sai Gon Students' Movement, assumed tasks at the revolutionary base in charge of the Sai Gon-Gia Dinh area.

- December 1963 to 1973: Cadre of the Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary Youth Union and the Inspection Section of the Party Central Committee's Department for South Vietnam , and Secretary of the Agency's Youth Union, and battlefield in My Tho province.

- 1974 to August 1979: Deputy Director of General Affairs Department of the Youth Union , Deputy Chief of the Youth Union Central Committee's Board for Voluntary Young People.

- September 1979 to July 1981: Trainee at the High-level Nguyen Ai Quoc Party School .

- July 1981 to December 1987: Head of the Youth Union Central Committee's Board for Voluntary Young People, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Youth Union Central Committee in HCM City, member of the Youth Union Central Committee's Executive Board, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee, Deputy President and General Secretary of the Viet Nam Youth Union.

- January 1988 to September 1989: Complementarily elected to the Party Committee of southern Song Be province.

- October 1989 to December 1991: Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Song Be province, elected member of the Party Central Committee at the seventh National Party Congress (June 1991).

- December 1991 to December 1996: Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of Song Be province, elected to the Communist Party Central Committee at the eighth National Party Congress, and deputy to the ninth National Assembly.

- January 1997 to December 1997: Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee.

- December 1997 to January 2000: Elected to the Party's Politburo at the fourth Conference of the eighth Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Party Committee's Commission for Mass Mobilisation.
- January 2000 to June 2006: Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee.

-May 2002 to June 2006: deputy to the 11th National Assembly.

-June 2006: elected State President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam at the ninth session of the 11th National Assembly.-Enditem