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President Nguyen Xuan Phuc reviews the Guards-of-Honor of the NDA. (Photo: Hoang Ha) |
President Phuc, who is also Commander-in-Chief of all armed forces and Chairman of the National Defense and Security Council, made the request during a ceremony marking the 45th founding anniversary of the NDA in Hanoi on December 31.
He affirmed that one of the important matters is Party building in the military and training a contingent of cadres and officers for the Vietnam People’s Army with a strong political mettle, moral virtue, strategic vision and leadership capacity who could brave difficulties and take actions for common interests.
In such spirit, the President urged the NDA to continue improving training quality by actively renewing its teaching methods, closely grasp the situation and better its strategic forecasting ability to offer early counseling to the Central Military Commission and Ministry of National Defense, protect the ideological foundation of the Party, and continue suggesting measures to defeat all malicious plots by hostile forces, thus enhancing Vietnam’s position in the international arena.
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President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Defense Minister General Phan Van Giang and other delegates touring the NDA (Photo: Hoang Ha) |
President Phuc said the NDA needs to add and change new fighting methods to meet the requirements of tasks in the new situation, mobilize the participation of scientists at home and abroad in scientific research, expand and improve international cooperation, continue offering training to Lao and Cambodian senior military officers, and open multi-national training courses for defense officers.
The President expressed his belief that under the Party’s leadership and State’s management, and the direct helm of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense, the NDA would develop stronger and reap greater achievements in the cause of education-training, helping to build a revolutionary, regular, elite and modern Vietnam People’s Army and firmly safeguarding the socialist Fatherland.
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The NDA receives the first-class Fatherland Protection Order and a merit certificate. (Photo: Hoang Ha) |
In his speech, NDA Director Assoc. Prof., Dr. Sr. Lt. Gen. Tran Viet Khoa said on January 3, 1977, the High-Level Military Academy (now NDA) opened its first training course. Over the past 45 years, it has organized over 400 courses and trained tens of thousands of high-ranking officers. Many of them had and have been taking important positions in the Party, State and military. It has also offered 81 training courses for over 700 foreign senior military officers.
On the occasion, President Phuc presented the first-class Fatherland Protection Order to the NDA.
Source: VNA