PANO – Senior Lieutenant General Ngo Xuan Lich, Director of the General Department of Politics chaired a conference reviewing the 2013 coordination in building and operating defence areas, held on March 12th in Hanoi.
Addressing the event, General Lich stressed that building provinces and cities directly under the central government into strong defence areas is a great policy of the Party and the State and a responsibility of all sectors. The one year of implementing the coordination regulation in building such areas between the General Department of Politics and other related organs saw many important results, including the high quality of local defence-security work in contribution to political stability, social order and safety and favorable environment for socio-economic development and defence-security reinforcement.
The report delivered by Lieutenant General Luong Cuong, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics, unveiled that over the past year, many exercises on defence areas, strategic operations were conducted together with the implementation of natural disaster protection, popularization on the missions of building up defence areas and national protection and timely prevention against hostile forces’ sabotage activities and fight against wrong viewpoints.
Notably, the department joined hands with other organs to build 1,187 houses of unity and gratitude for the needy, support over VND 32 billion to the campaign “Day for the Poor“, strengthen more than 3,000 party organizations and nearly 15,000 socio-political cells at all levels in localities and offer vocation training and jobs for more than 100,000 youths completing their military services.
Concluding the conference, General Lich asked the department and other related organs to boost information exchange, actively instruct and inspect the building defence areas in localities, renovate coordination programs, and well organize activities marking the great events of the nation and the army in 2014.
Translated by Mai Huong
Đăng ký: VietNam News
