General Nguyen Tan Cuong, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Defense Minister, chaired the conference.
The event was attended by Senior Lieutenant General Huynh Chien Thang, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army; and Lieutenant General Le Quang Minh, Deputy Director of the General Department of Political Affairs of the Vietnam People’s Army.
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General Nguyen Tan Cuong addresses the event. |
Based on reports from the whole military’s units, the Office of the Ministry of National Defense has studied and drafted a preliminary report on military and defense work in 2024, asked for opinions from agencies and units, and completed the draft report as regulated.
In his speech, General Cuong highly valued relevant agencies and units for their efforts and responsibility to prepare contents serving the whole military politico-military conference in 2024, while underlining that the draft report meets set requirements.
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Lieutenant General Le Quang Minh, Deputy Director of the General Department of Political Affairs, speaks at the event. |
He also requested relevant agencies and units to work together to better the draft report, with a focus on highlighting task performance of military units this year, particularly in conducting research and rescue, responding to natural disasters, building houses for needy families, and international integration and external defense relations.
At the same time, he asked the Office of the Ministry of National Defense to further receive comments from delegates and supplement several contents, results of training, exercises, contests, and sports competitions of military units.
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An overview of the conference |
General Cuong stressed that the year of 2025 would play an important role in the fulfillment of the goals set by the 13th National Party Congress and the 11th Military Party Organization’s Congress, as well as witness Party congresses at all levels in the 2025-2030 term towards the 14th National Party Congress. Thus, the draft report should closely follow major missions of the military in 2025 and be toward the target of building an elite, streamlined, and strong military in accordance with the on-going plan of the Party to rearrange and streamline the organizational apparatus.
Translated by Minh Anh