Military units to promote gratitude activities

Defense Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich inquiring after national contributors in Ly Nhan district, Ha Nam province on July 2018

According to the plan, defense agencies and military units will foster dissemination of the Party’s guidelines and State’s policies for national contributors. The Defense Ministry will work with the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to conduct national-level social surveys on policy beneficiaries, and based on the results will recommend the Government to issue an amended Ordinance for National Contributors as well as policies for servicemen missing in action.

All defense agencies and military units were also requested to implement the Government’s ordinance regulating benefits policies for national contributors as well as Vietnamese people at home and overseas with contributions to international services.

In addition, relevant military units and localities will promote search and collection of remains of fallen soldiers and hold solemn memorial service for newly-collected ones in line with the regulations.

On the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the Vietnamese Wounded Soldiers' and Martyrs' Day (July 27), leaders of the Ministry of National Defense and the General Department of Politics will visit and present gifts to centers for wounded and sick soldiers, the Vietnam Friendship Village, the Vietnam Association for Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims, as well as families of war veterans and martyrs, soldiers, heroes of the people’s armed forces, labor heroes, Vietnamese heroic mothers and national contributors.

These activities are expected to contribute to the whole Party’s and people’s efforts in taking good care of all policy beneficiaries.

Translated by Tran Hoai