Ex-Vietnam premier dies at 85: government spokesman
HANOI (AFP) — Former Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, responsible for the communist country's economic reforms of the 1990s, died on Wednesday in Singapore at the age of 85, a government spokesman said.
"We were informed that former prime minister Vo Van Kiet died this morning, June 11," a foreign affairs ministry spokesman told AFP.
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