February 21, 2018 | 19:05 (GMT+7)
Permanent office of UXO steering committee set up
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, head of the National Steering Committee on the Settlement of Post-war Unexploded Ordnance and Toxic Chemical Consequences, has signed a decision to establish the committee’s permanent office.
Under the decision, Director of the office is the Deputy Defense Minister who is also permanent member of the steering committee.
Its deputy directors include Deputy Ministers of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs; Natural Resources and Environment; and Planning and Investment; a Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), and a Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the VPA.
The office is located in the Ministry of National Defense’s Department of Military Science.
It is responsible for proposing orientations and solutions to important issues, and measures to mobilize domestic and foreign resources to quickly tackle post-war bomb and mine and toxic chemical consequences in Vietnam.
Its duties are also to make long-term, medium-term and yearly plans to implement national action plans and programs on the settlement of consequences; coordinate the work between ministries, ministry-level and offices, and local People’s Committees; and make regular and unscheduled reports on the work.
Source: VNA