PANO - The Party Committee of Military Zone 4 on December 29th convened a conference to map out its tasks for the next year in the presence of Senior Lieutenant General Do Ba Ty, Deputy Minister of National Defence cum Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army.

Conference of the Party Committee of Military Zone 4

In 2014, the Committee seriously instructed constituent units to improve combat readiness and training quality, maintain the watch to effectively tackle problems, actively participated in search and rescue, and build defensive areas and whole people defence posture.

Besides, it also scored results in ensuring logistics and weapons and equipment for missions, augmenting troops’ living standards, carrying out military scientific research projects, and conducting external affairs activities relating to national defence.

For the coming time, General Ty requested Military Zone 4 to thoroughly grasp instructions on military and defence work from the higher levels and the Resolution of the 8th session of the 11th Party Central Committee on the national protection strategy in the new context, well support local authorities to maintain  the social order, promote combat readiness and training quality, build defence projects in localities as planned, and closely combine economic development with defence and security tasks.

The same day, Military Zone 9 reviewed the implementation of military and defence tasks this year and worked out its 2015 missions.

Translated by Van Hieu