Somsavat Lengsavad
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Somsavat Lengsavad (Template:Langx; born 15 June 1945) is a former Deputy Prime Minister of Laos. An ethnic Chinese, Chinese name: 凌绪光 (Lin Xuguang), who hails from Luang Prabang with ancestry from Hainan,[1] he was a protégé of Kaysone Phomvihane.
In 1961 he joined the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and fought in the Laotian Civil War.[2]
He became foreign minister in 1993 and served until 8 June 2006, when he was replaced by Thongloun Sisoulith.
Besides his native Lao, he is fluent in Standard Chinese.[3]
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- Laotian people of Chinese descent
- 1945 births
- Members of the 5th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Members of the 7th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Members of the 8th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Members of the 9th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Members of the 8th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Members of the 9th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Living people
- Deputy prime ministers of Laos
- Foreign ministers of Laos
- Recipients of the Order of Ho Chi Minh
- People from Luang Prabang