Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh and General Luong Cuong, Director of the General Department of Political Affairs, attended the event.
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Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh hands over the “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces in the Renewal Period” title to the Political Academy. |
In his speech, Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Bao, director of the academy, highlighted the establishment and development of the academy. According to General Bao, the foundation of the academy seven decades ago has demonstrated the far-sighted vision of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh on consolidating and boosting the Party's leadership over the military.
Over the past 70 years, generations of the academy's cadres, instructors and trainees have surmounted every difficulty and challenge and developed the academy into a center for training and fostering political cadres, commissars, and political instructors, and a prestigious research center on military social sciences and humanities of the military and the nation.
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Delegates at the ceremony |
The academy has made important contribution to building the revolutionary, standardized, elite and gradually-modernized Vietnam People' Army.
Addressing the ceremony, Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh congratulated the academy on its achievements in the past. He affirmed that the academy has always been a strong fortress in the combat to protect the Party's ideological foundation and spoil any schemes and plots of hostile forces on the ideological and political front.
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Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh speaks at the event. |
The deputy PM highlighted the academy’s scientific arguments on orienting the path to socialism in Vietnam, helping the Party and the State issue right policies so that the country could overcome difficulties, carry out the renewal process, and obtain achievements.
The governmental leader believed that the Political Academy will bring into play its glorious traditions and great achievements obtained over the past seven decades since its establishment and excellently complete all assignments. He hoped that the academy’s prestige and position will be further raised to deserve the trust of the Party, State, and people.
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Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Bao, director of the academy, delivers a speech at the ceremony. |
At the event, authorized by the State President, Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh presented the title “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces in the Renewal Process” to the Political Academy.
Translated by Mai Huong