President lauds Hanoi’s efforts in national defence strategy hinh anh 1President Vo Van Thuong speaks at the event. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – President Vo Van Thuong on March 29 commended Hanoi’s efforts in implementing the national defence strategy in the new situation while addressing a conference reviewing the 10-year implementation of the resolution adopted at the 8th plenum of the 11th Party Central Committee on the strategy.

Thuong, who is also head of the steering committee for the building of the project reviewing the implementation of the strategy, said Hanoi has maintained political security, social order and safety, ensuring the absolute safety for major political events of the Party and the State.

He asked the municipal Party Committee to continue maintaining national defence and security as an important, regular task.

Hanoi should step up the communications work to raise public awareness of national construction and defence, foil plots by hostile forces, and closely combine national defence and security with socio-economic and cultural development and external affairs, the leader continued.

Economic development needs to go in tandem with social and cultural development and social welfare, he said, urging the capital city to pay more attention to cultural value preservation and promotion.

Thuong also pointed to the tasks of Party and political system building and rectification, fighting corruption and negative phenomena, reforming the mass mobilisation work, and expanding exchanges with other localities in and outside the country.

The same day, the President, on behalf of Party and State leaders, presented the Ho Chi Minh Order to Pham Quang Nghi, former Politburo member and former Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, in recognition of his great contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation./.
VNA