Fatherland Front focuses on major anniversaries

The third conference of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee’s Presidium opened in the central city of Da Nang on July 15 under the chairmanship of President Huynh Dam.
The third conference of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee’s Presidium opened in the central city of Da Nang on July 15 under the chairmanship of President Huynh Dam.

During the two-day conference, the participants will review the VFF’s operations in the first half of the year and discuss its major tasks for the second half.

They will examine the preparations for the 80th founding anniversary of the National Front for the Liberation of Southern Vietnam and the elections for the 13th National Assembly and People’s Council at all levels for the 2011-2016 term.

They will also discuss how to enhance their operations and the methods used by the VFF and socio-political organisations while upholding national unity as well as ethnic and religious affairs.

Regarding the major tasks to be taken in the remaining months of 2010, VFF committees at all levels and its member organisations will gather and encourage people from all walks of life to boost emulation movements for the celebrations of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. The 65 years since the August Revolution, National Day, 80 years of the founding of the Vietnam National United Front and the 50 years of the founding of the National Front for the Liberation of Southern Vietnam will also be looked at.

The participants acknowledged the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 6.16 percent in the first six months of this year as well as its achievements in generating jobs, eliminating hunger, reducing poverty, providing aid to people involved in natural disasters and preventing and controlling epidemics.

They also applauded the progress made in a several fields including education, training, labour, health care, culture, social affairs, administrative reforms and the fight against corruption./.

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