Thua Thien Hue asked to reinforce defensive area

PANO – The local armed forces always serve as a reliable support for local Party committees, authorities and people in maintaining defense-secuirty, social order and safety, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Thua Thien Hue provincial Party Committee Bui Thanh Ha noted at a working session with a defense mission.

The defense mission led by member of the Party Central Committee, permanent member of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Defense Minister, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang is on a working visit to the province to check the province’s performance of the 2016 military-defense tasks.

Deputy Secretary Bui Thanh Ha briefed the mission on local socio-economic development and the outcomes of the province’s implementation of the 2016 military-defense tasks.

Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang visiting the Memorial House of General Nguyen Chi Thanh in Hue city

In his report, he highlighted the role of the local armed forces in providing timely good advice on military-defense work, helping the province’s Party Committee and authorities give right instructions to its localities to successfully fulfill the 2016 military-defense tasks.

Additionally, the province’s Military Command have collaborated closely with the local Party Committee and authorities in building local armed forces, enlisting local youths for the army, conducting military training for local military and quasi-military forces, consolidating the defensive area, carrying out military exercises and participating in local socio-economic development, hunger elimination and poverty reduction.

The provincial official also hoped that the Central Military Commission, Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff continue supporting the province by regularly providing leadership and guidance to the province and augmenting capacities of the province’s armed forces, contributing to ensuring socio-political stability and facilitating local socio-economic development.

General Giang on behalf of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense lauded the achievements of the provincial Party Committee, authorities, armed forces and people and wished the province more good results in the future.

He also underscored the importance of close collaboration and supportive interractions between the local armed forces and local leadership and people in accomplishing military-defense tasks.

The Chief of the General Staff asked the provincial Party Committee and authorities to further pay attention to the building of the local armed forces, reinforcing the building of the provincial-level defensive area and consolidating the whole people defense posture, meeting the requirement for the mission of building the country and protecting the Fatherland in the current context.

Earlier, Lietenant General Phan Van Giang and the defense mission offered incense and paid tribute to General Nguyen Chi Thanh at the General Nguyen Chi Thanh Memorial House in Hue city.