Party Congress attracts foreign media interest

The ongoing 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) continues to attract interest from foreign media.
The ongoing 11th National Congress ofthe Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) continues to attract interest fromforeign media.

In Beijing, Xinhua News Agency, Beijing Radioand many Chinese newspapers have carried reports over the past few dayson the 11th National Party Congress of Vietnam, highlighting thecountry’s achievements in 25 years of implementing the national renewalprocess.

The newspapers interviewed many Vietnamese people, whosaid they watched news on the Party Congress and believed the renewalprocess brought great achievements to the country. The people wishedthat the Congress would elect new leaders with morality and talent toplay a key role in the country’s development.

In Havana, theGranma daily of the Communist Party of Cuba on Jan. 13 carried news andphotos of the Congress’s opening ceremony, citing a speech by theevent’s chair Nguyen Minh Triet, Party Politburo member and StatePresident.

The speech affirmed that despite the challenges andimpacts of the global financial crisis, the Vietnamese Party and peoplewere determined to exert efforts to develop Vietnam into anindustrialised country by 2020. State President Triet also stated thatMarxism - Leninism have been the firm foundation of the renewal processin Vietnam over the past 25 years.

Meanwhile, “the Age” dailyof Australia on Jan. 13 said that the Communist Party of Vietnamcommitted to carefully consider the model for national economic growthto build Vietnam into an industrialised country by 2020, whileaccelerating democracy in the Party.

An article by Roberto Tofanion the World Politics Review of Australia wrote since implementing therenewal process in 1986, Vietnam had posted rapid economic growth.In 2010, Vietnam obtained an economic growth rate of 6.7 percentdespite impacts of the global financial crisis. The country alsosucceeded in poverty reduction and has exerted efforts to fulfill theUN’s millennium development goals (MDGs).

Answering Vietnam NewsAgency’s correspondent in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Poldi Sosa Schmidt,President of the Argentina-Vietnam Culture Institute, said members ofthe institute and many Argentinean people who have sentiments withVietnam, watched the news on the 11 th National Party Congress, animportant event to decide the development of Vietnam in the comingyears.

She said that 25 years of the renewal process proved thecapacity of the Communist Party of Vietnam in timely, suitably andbravely summing up historical experiences and implementing changes butkeeping initial basic principles.

She expressed her belief thatthe 11th National Party Congress of Vietnam would work out suitabledevelopment orientations for Vietnam in the next decade, especially inmaintaining national characteristics and guiding young generations topreserve the revolutionary tradition.

The Pravda dailynewspaper of the Communist Party of Russia ran an article in its Jan. 14issue, affirming that the 11 th National Congress of the CPV is amilestone on Vietnam’s path to socialism.

Sergey Aphonin,a former reporter of Russian news agency TASS, expressed his hope thatthe 11th National Party Congress would open a new page for Vietnameserevolution, summarise the theory and reality of building a socialistregime and put forward specific tasks for Vietnam’s socio-economicdevelopment in the coming years.

Under the dynamic,clear-sighted and experienced leadership of the CPV, Vietnam is sureto become a democratic and prosperous country, he said./.

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