PANO – The Academy of Politics under the Ministry of National Defence held a seminar with the theme “General Nguyen Chi Thanh with the education and training cause for political officers in the Vietnam People’s Army”, on December 24th.

General Thanh was an excellent senior official of the Party, a talented general of the army and also the first Director of the Academy of Politics. Between 1951 and 1960, he paved the way for the development of the academy.

During his term in office at the academy, General Thanh always cared about military political officers, contributing to promoting the Party’s direct leadership over the army in all fields and the Party and political work quality, and bringing into play the tradition and strength of the army.

Delegates also delivered reports praising the general’s life and career, and his contributions to the revolutionary cause of the nation, the Party and the Academy of Politics, as its director for the first 10 years.

In addition, they worked out measures to put General Thanh’s thought on education and training and scientific research into practice, in order to meet the tasks’ demands in the new context.

The same day, the academy organized an exhibition to display newspapers, books and documents relating to General Thanh.

Translated by Pham Huy