The event was co-chaired by Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong, Deputy Defense Minister and Deputy Head of Steering Committee 515, and Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong, former Deputy Defense Minister and President of the Vietnam Veterans’ Association.
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Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong speaking at the event |
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong evaluated that the program has obtained comprehensive achievements. Activities in the program have helped enhance responsibility and comradeship of affiliated associations’ members and war veterans as well as encourage organizations and individuals to actively provide information related to martyrs and their burial places and take part in the search, collection, and verification of martyrs' remains, contributing to raising the quality of the work.
In the 2017-2022 period, the Veterans’ Associations at all levels have collected around 185,000 pieces of information related to martyrs and their burial places; received and verified more than 16,500 notes with information about burial places of fallen soldiers; mobilized around 3,000 war veterans to participate in the search and collection. With the efforts, around 10,000 sets of remains of fallen soldiers with about 5,000 in domestic localities, 1,500 in Laos, and the rest in Cambodia have been collected in the past years.
At the event, the Steering Committee 515 and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Veterans’ Association signed a cooperation agreement for the 2023-2030 period. The two sides agreed that in the coming time they should accelerate the coordination; raise awareness and responsibility of local Party Committees, authorities, leaders of agencies and units, veterans’ associations and their members, of the search, collection, and verification of martyrs' remains; collect and deal with information related to fallen soldiers and their burial places; decode the designation of units; build a national martyrs' database; foster information dissemination to raise the quality of the work.
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Outstanding collectives honored at the event |
They will review the implementation of the program and honor outstanding collectives and individuals.
At the event, 20 collectives and 20 individuals of the Vietnam Veterans’ Association, agencies, and military units were presented with certificates of merit by the Defense Minister and President of the Vietnam Veterans’ Association for their excellent achievements in carrying out the coordination program in the 2017-2022 period.
Translated by Tran Hoai