The leader noted that in the first half of this year, the country encountered many difficulties and challenges amid the complicated and unpredictable world situation. In that context, the Party, the people, and the military comprehensively implemented many policies to realize the Resolution passed at the 13th National Party Congress, while dealing with emerging and lingering issues.
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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends the politico-military conference of the military. |
Comprehensive and important results were achieved, including stable socio-political situation, recovering economy, controlled inflation, ensured macro-economic balances, and managed bad debts and budget over expenditure, he pointed out. Meanwhile, the Party building and rectification as well as the corruption fight were effective, and the national security, defense and external relations strengthened, added the Prime Minister.
He highlighted contribution by the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) in these achievements by showing strong performance in national defense and production activities, completing all tasks assigned.
Along with effectively implementing and proposing military-defense policies to the Party and State, the military has actively coordinated with the whole political system and the people in building a strong people-based defense, while making important contribution to the country’s socio-economic development, promoting its key role in improving the socio-economic situation in far-flung and difficult areas, he said.
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Prime Minister addressing the event |
The Government leader hailed the VPA for improving its combativeness, firmly safeguarding the nation’s airspace, sea and border, as well as its active, flexible and effective international integration, and engagement in search and rescue activities inside and outside the country, especially during the earthquake disaster in Turkey.
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Defense Minister General Phan Van Giang speaking at the conference |
Underlining that the world and regional situation is forecast to continue developing complicatedly and unpredictably with many risk factors, causing many difficulties and challenges for the country, he stressed that the task of building the military, reinforcing national defense and protecting the Fatherland will become harder.
He asked the VPA to further improve its forecasting capacity, and provide more strategic advice to the Party and State in defense and military areas, while giving flexible and effective response to particular situations.
The Prime Minister requested the military to strictly manage the airspace, sea, border, national territory and cyberspace, enhancing the efficiency in State management over defense activities, and paying greater attention to the personnel training work.
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Delegates in a joint photo |
Noting that in the recent Central Military Commission’s session, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized the spirit of setting good examples in the Military Party Organization and the whole military, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked the VPA to specify the direction in its guiding documents.
The military should focus on developing a modern defense industry basing on the achievements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, while turning it into a strong force in socio-economic development and infrastructure building, playing the core role in responding to natural disasters, incidents, as well as in search and rescue activities, and coordinating with the People’s Public Security force to build and reinforce the “people-based battlefield,” he said.
The Prime Minister also underlined the need for the VPA to continue to actively, comprehensively and effectively conduct international integration and defense external relations, affirming Vietnam’s “Four Nos” defense policy.
On the occasion of the 76th Wounded Soldiers and Martyrs’ Day (July 27), he expressed deep gratitude to Heroic Vietnamese Mothers, martyrs, and Heroes of the People’s Armed Forces, as well as wounded and sick soldiers, relatives of martyrs, revolutionary soldiers jailed by the enemies, and families of those who rendered services to the revolution.
Source: VNA