caption deputy predecessor successor birth_place president blankname party office primeminister birth_date order term_start namedata image article_title term_end name
prime minister phan văn khải in 2005 nguyễn tấn dũng võ văn kiệt nguyễn tấn dũng nguyễn sinh hùng củ chi district , vietnam trần Đức lương general & nbsp ; secretary communist party of vietnam deputy prime minister võ văn kiệt 25 december 1933 prime ministers of vietnam 24 september 1997 8 august 1991 lê khả phiêu nông Đức mạnh phan van khai 2005.jpg phan văn khải
 27 june 2006 29 september 1997 phan văn khải
phan văn khải

phan văn khải -lrb- ; born december 25 , 1933 -rrb- was prime minister of vietnam from 1997 to 2006 .
khai was born in tan thong hoi commune , củ chi district , saigon .
he joined the revolution in 1947 and moved to hanoi in 1954 .
he was elected as prime minister on september 24 , 1997 , and was re-elected in august 2002 .
in 2005 , he became the first prime minister of vietnam to visit united states , meeting with president george w. bush .
on june 24 , 2006 , he announced his resignation , along with president trần Đức lương .
