Reports delivered at the conference chaired by Senior Lieutenant General Luong Cuong, Director of the General Department of Politics (GDP) of the Vietnam People’s Army confirmed that this year, the GDP’s leaders instructed its affiliates to strictly implement directives and resolutions of the Party and the Central Military Commission (CMC) on military and defense tasks, followed closely and actively any local and international developments as well as well performed their strategic consultative role for the Politburo, the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the CMC and the Ministry of National Defense (MND).
The GDP also instructed the whole army to outstandingly achieve their set targets on Party and political work while its officers and troops stayed firm in their stance and heightened vigilance, high sense of determination and trust in the sound leadership of the Party as well as being willing to undertake and accomplish all assigned missions.
Senior Lieutenant General Luong Cuong speaking at the conference
Moreover, the GDP’s Organs bettered their political education, ideological leadership, information and communications work, bolstered the “Determination to Win” emulation movements and remarkably built the army’s regularity.
In his closing speech, General Cuong hailed the GDP’s cadres and troops for their great efforts to excellently fulfill assigned missions, contributing to building a politically strong army.
The GDP’s Director asked affiliated units to further study and strictly implement the CMC’s Resolution on leadership on military and defense task performance as well as the directives and plans on Party and political work for 2017; continue giving suggestions to effectively carry out resolutions and instructions by the Party Central Committee, the CMC and the MND and resolutions of the 10th Military Party Congress.
The GDP will also intensively implement the Politburo’s Directive 05 and the CMC’s Standing Committee’s Instruction N.87 on enhancing the movement “Learning and following the thought, moral example and style of President Ho Chi Minh” and the campaign “Promoting tradition, devoting talents, deserving to be Uncle Ho’s soldiers” as well as the Resolution 04 of the 12th National Party Congress on “Enhancing Party building and revamping; preventing and controlling the ideological, political and lifestyle degradation as well as internal ‘self-evolution’ and ‘self-transformation”.
The GDP’s Organs will proactively perform comprehensive administrative reform, renovate working methods and heighten cadres’ responsibilities as well as build comprehensively strong and exemplary GDP’s Organs.
At the conference, the GDP’s Organs launched the “Determination to Win” emulation movement in 2017 and the GDP’s leaders presented the emulation flags to six units, namely the Departments of Information and Training, Policy, Organization, and Politics, the People’s Army Newspaper and the Military Cheo (Popular Opera) Theater in recognizing their task performance and their role models in the "Determination to Win" emulation movement this year.
* This year, the General Department of Logistics ensured logistics for routine and extra missions, prioritized logistics for forces undertaking missions of protecting national sovereignty over seas and islands, at border areas, on islands and in other key areas; strongly renewed the work of creating logistic resources to reasonably provide for units; and expand tenders with the aim of improving products and troops’ living standards as well.
Also at this Politico-Military Conference, the General Department of Logistics rolled out its missions for 2017, including closely studying higher-levels’ directives and resolutions to comprehensively carry out logistic work, improving the system of documents on warfare logistics, stepping up the building of defensive areas, and bringing into full play all resources to promote logistic guarantee quality, maintain stability and improve troops’ living conditions.
* This year, Military Region 2 Command always actively followed local developments, timely handled emerging situations, ensured absolute safety of personnel and equipment in national political events; and upheld political security, stability and social order and safety in localities. Its affiliates well conducted defensive area exercises at provincial, district and ward levels while observing disciplines and building regularity.
* Regarding its missions for 2017, Military Region 5 plans to strictly study the CMC and MND’s guidelines on military and defense task, promote the quality of grasping and forecasting situations and giving recommendations to higher levels to tackle military-defense situations in localities on time and in line with the laws and higher-level regulations. It will comprehensively carry out directives and regulations on combat readiness, ensure absolute safety for political events held in localities where it is stationed, especially APEC 2017, and team with relevant units to put forward administrative reform at all levels.
* From the beginning of this year, Army Corps 4 has promoted the combat strength of its party cells, democracy and solidarity among cadres and troops. It has held live-fire exercises from squad to battalion-level with flying colors and absolute safety. Notably, the corps and affiliates spent more than VND 24 billion in caring for policy beneficiaries, poor people and cadres and troops’ families.
In 2017, the corps will concentrate on comprehensively improving party cells’ combat strength and capacity, building regularity, making breakthroughs on training and combat readiness as well as promoting administrative reform.
At the conference, the corps rewarded more than 300 groups and individuals with good task performance in 2016.
* The Staff of the General Department of Techniques in 2017 will continue improving quality of grasping and forecasting situations, actively suggesting its leadership on techniques, building regularity and strong units and fulfilling all set duties.
Translated by Mai Huong