The event was attended by MR5’s Commander Lieutenant General Thai Dai Ngoc, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Duc Thanh, MR5’s Political Commissar Lieutenant General Trinh Dinh Thach, members of MR5’s Standing Party Committee, local leaders, and participating troops.
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Lieutenant General Thai Dai Ngoc addresses the opening ceremony. |
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Lieutenant General Thai Dai Ngoc emphasized that this large-scale exercise consists of many contents related to field components. It sees the participation of many forces, weapons, and equipment and takes place in different locations.
To ensure the success of the exercise and absolute safety, MR5’s commander asked the steering committee for the exercise and its agencies to run the exercise as planned and foster supervision of participating troops’ performance.
He urged the participants to thoroughly grasp contents and flexibly apply the Party’s guideline and State’s policies and laws and the theoretical principle on national protection strategy in the new period based on their missions and local situations while ensuring secrecy and absolute safety in all aspects.
Ninh Thuan province’s four-day event has two parts, namely civil defense exercise on responding to incidents and defensive area exercise. The defensive area exercise alone is divided into three stages, namely shifting the armed forces to higher combat readiness status, shifting the locality to national defense status, and preparing for and conducting defensive operation.
The exercise is an opportunity to enhance leadership and management capability of local Party committee and authorities; strengthen coordination among forces in handling complicated security and defense circumstances in the locality; raise the armed forces, departments, sectors, and organizations’ ability of giving advice to respond to emergency security and defense circumstances, shift locality to wartime posture, and handle circumstances during the defensive operation to meet the requirement of national protection.
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Participating forces receive gifts after the exercise. |
After the opening ceremony, participants observed the performance of contents in the civil defense part. In this part, participating forces responded to a dam break and a fire incident at Ninh Chu port in Ninh Hai district.
Translated by Tran Hoai