On behalf of the Party Committee and Editorial Board of the newspaper, Major General Doan Xuan Bo, the PAN’s Editor-in-Chief, briefed General Quyet on the newspaper’s task performance over the past time and its orientations for missions in the coming time.
He underlined that the newspaper’s Party Committee, Editorial Board, staff, and workers have strengthened their solidarity, overcome difficulties, and completed all assigned missions.
Addressing the meeting, General Quyet praised the PAN’s leadership and staff for their great efforts and high sense of responsibility in fulfilling their assignments.
He highly valued the staff’s effort to renovate contents and forms of publications to get closer to readers and its initiatives in the fight against signs of “peaceful evolution”, “self-evolution” and “self-transformation.”
The General also praised the newspaper's timely and lively coverage of national news, external affairs, military-defense activities and important political events of the Party, State, Ministry of National Defense, as well as the nation’s socio-economic and cultural achievements.
He mentioned the newspaper’s articles on the 13th National Party Congress, the elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and the People’s Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 tenure, and COVID-19 prevention and control activities.
Confirming that the PAN is an organ of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense and the voice of the armed forces and people of Vietnam, General Quyet highly praised the newspaper for its outstanding contributions to the national defense and military-building cause and to orienting troops’ thoughts and combating wrongful and hostile viewpoints.
He asked the newspaper to further promote unity, raise responsibility, and secure its position as one of the nation’s leading political newspapers and an important ideological weapon of the Party, State, and military.
He urged the PAN to renovate its working methods, apply advanced information technologies, bring into full play the good traditions of the Vietnamese revolutionary press and heroic People’s Army, and deserve to be a pioneer on the Party’s ideological and cultural front.
It should also contribute to building a firm front of people’s heart to increase the nation’s spiritual strength, and boost sustainable and stable development for a prosperous nation.
Translated by Mai Huong