Priceless gift from General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

In my hand is a small blue handbag!

This is the bag I cherish the most! Not because it is expensive, but because it is associated with a special memory, a special person: General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong!

I was fortunate to be a member of the National Assembly for two terms. During the regular sessions of the National Assembly, the National Assembly delegates always had the chance to meet General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, to talk with him, and to be asked about him very warmly and intimately.

For female National Assembly deputies, memories of him are even warmer. When he was still Chairwoman of the National Assembly, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong established the Group of Female National Assembly Deputies (in 2008), with the spirit of motivating and encouraging female National Assembly deputies to be active, to work effectively, and to encourage the spirit of striving and enthusiastically participating in all political and social activities of Vietnamese women in general.

Over the past 16 years of establishment, the Group of Women National Assembly Deputies has grown stronger and stronger, proportional to the increase in the number of female deputies in each term and has had more and more practical and meaningful activities.

What is special is that in each subsequent National Assembly term, when he was no longer the Chairman of the National Assembly, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong always arranged time to meet with the Group of Female National Assembly Deputies, listen to the group's reports on the activities, thoughts and aspirations of female National Assembly deputies as well as encourage and advise the group a lot. And in those meetings, the General Secretary always had a special gift for each delegate.

At the 5th Session of the 15th National Assembly, on the afternoon of June 5, 2023, the General Secretary held an intimate meeting with the Group of Female National Assembly Deputies at the hall of the Party Central Committee Office. Although the General Secretary was not in good health at that time, he still listened attentively to Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy Anh, member of the Central Executive Committee, Chairwoman of the National Assembly's Social Committee, Chairwoman of the Group of Female National Assembly Deputies of the 15th tenure, report on the results of the group's activities. He expressed his joy at the efforts of the female National Assembly deputies and encouraged the "descendants of Mrs. Trung and Mrs. Trieu" a lot and expressed his wish that the female National Assembly deputies would continue to study, practice, improve their moral qualities and qualifications, professional and technical skills; promote their mettle and intelligence, and be worthy of being representatives of the people.

I believe that for each female member of the 15th National Assembly, the gift received from General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong during that meeting is a priceless keepsake. And the warm words of advice from the General Secretary are always the motivation for each person to strive to fulfill all assigned responsibilities with deep pride.