Hanoi (VNA) – Party General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, on June 19 chaired its 14th conference in the 2020-2025 tenure, which aimed to review its military and defence tasks in the first half of 2025, and roll out orientations for these missions and Party‑building tasks in the People’s Army for the second half of the year.
In his remarks, the Party chief hailed the Central Military Commission’s Standing Board for directing and carefully preparing the contents submitted to the Commission.
He attributed the achievements in the first half to the continuous, direct, and comprehensive leadership of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee, and the close and effective coordination of relevant ministries, sectors and localities.
Lam highly valued the Commission for upholding principles, fostering solidarity, and boosting innovation in working method and style, saying that it has accurately identified key priorities and breakthrough tasks and pursued those with resolute leadership and comprehensive, practical, and effective measures.
The Party chief urged the Central Military Commission to concentrate its leadership and guidance on decisively and effectively carrying out the core tasks, focusing on successfully organising the 12th Military Party Congress, and preparing contents serving the 14th National Party Congress with the highest responsibility and best quality.
He requested the Central Military Commission to lead and direct the reorganisation of local military structures to align with the two‑tier local administration apparatus; bolster its forecasting, research, and accurate situational assessments; and promptly advise the Party and State on policies and strategies that safeguard the nation’s interests and steadfastly protect the country’s independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity.
He asked for stronger efforts to vigorously implement the “Digital Literacy for All” movement, promote administrative reforms and digital transformation in military administrative management to make sure that every officer and soldier become a “digital warrior,” mastering digital platforms and skills to support their missions.
“Modernising personnel” must precede “modernising weapons and equipment,” he stressed, calling for vigorous and decisive implementation of key military and defence projects.
The Party leader emphasised the imperative of decisively sustaining, consolidating, and expanding trusted defence cooperation with all partners, prioritising neighbouring and regional countries, major powers, strategic partners and comprehensive partners, and traditional friends —to build and reinforce strategic trust and safeguard the nation’s highest interests.
He ordered effectively carrying out programmes and projects to remediate post-war consequences and support UN peacekeeping operations.
At the conference, State President Luong Cuong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and representatives of central agencies, and the Central Military Commission also delivered speeches to clarify the outcomes in implementing duties in the first six months, and discuss and adopt leadership orientations and solutions for the second half of 2025./.
