PANO - The Artillery Arm of the Vietnam People's Army held a ceremony on June 28th to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding day and receive the first-class Protection Order. Present at the ceremony were  Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, former Defense Minister Gen. Phung Quang Thanh, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics Lt. Gen. Nguyen Trong Nghia, and Deputy Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Nguyen Phuong Nam.

The ceremony

At the event, the arm's commander Maj. Gen. Do Tat Chuan recalled the unit's glorious traditions over the past 70 years and stressed that the arm has made great effort to fulfill all missions assigned by the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense. The arm’s troops have always believed in the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, seriously carried out the directives of Party congresses at all levels, and actively promoted  the "Learning and following President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example” campaign and other movements, contributing to building a comprehensively strong unit in terms of politics, ideology and organization.

Addressing the ceremony, Deputy PM Binh congratulated the unit on its feats of arms and achievements over the past 70 years. He asked them to continue grasping higher levels' instructions, building troops' political stance and absolute loyal to the Party, the State and the people. Additionally, he suggested that they should increasingly improve training quality and combat readiness to meet all task requirements in the current context, contributing to firmly defending the Socialist Fatherland of Vietnam.

On behalf of the Party and State, the Deputy Prime Minister presented the noble order to the unit's commanders at the event.

Translated by Trung Thanh