December 21, 2017 | 18:48 (GMT+7)
MND active in mitigating natural disasters' consequences and building cultural environment
PANO - The Ministry of National Defense (MND) was active in natural disaster consequence mitigation and cultural environment building, as heard at the forth-quarter of 2017 press conference held by the ministry on Dec. 20 in Hanoi.
At the event, the Department of
Information and Training under the General Department of Politics
informed the press of the results of the whole military’s task performance in
preventing and overcoming natural disasters’ consequences as well as search and
rescue missions.
An example proving the military’s
activeness in preventing natural disasters was that hundreds of thousands of
troops and militiamen with thousands of vehicles joined local authorities
to mitigate various disasters’ aftermaths.
Additionally, the agency gave
information about the 25-year achievements of the “Building cultural
environment in the military” movement and the movement to stimulate composition of
artistic and literary works on "the solidarity in combating common enemies
among Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia”, which received 1,707
entries from 791 authors.
Translated by Trung Thanh