Đỗ Bá Tỵ (born 1 December 1954) is a Vietnamese

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in the

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and Vietnamese politician.

Personal life

On 1 December 1954, Đỗ Bá Tỵ was born in Tân Lập commune, Đan Phượng district,

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Military

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Đỗ Bá Tỵ was the Vietnamese Deputy

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when, on 22 December 2010 with "Decision No. 2188 / QD-CTN",

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awarded him the position of chief of the

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. On 5 October 2015,

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promoted Đỗ Bá Tỵ to

Politics

On 5 October 2015, General Đỗ Bá Tỵ was a member of the

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. , Đỗ was the vice-chairman of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and president of the Vietnam-China parliamentary group.

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