Prime Minister highlights Government - VFF cooperation

Hanoi (VNA) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hailed cooperation between the Government and the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) during a conference on September 29 to review the two sides' coordination results in the 2016 -2020 period and the first eight months of this year, and future focuses.

The PM attributed the country's achievements over the past five years to contributions by the VFF, saying that results in previous and current tenures show that cooperation between the Government and the VFF is suitable for national interests.

The two sides have taken the initiative in carrying out tasks stipulated in the collaboration regulation, according to a report at the event. 

The tasks have been implemented in a comprehensive and practical manner that addressed urgent issues in life and socio-economic development, thereby creating consensus in society and strengthening national solidarity.

Amid the complexities of COVID-19, the sides have joined hands to tap on strengths of the national solidarity and mobilise resources in the political system, calling for consensus and support of the business community and people nationwide so as to repel the ongoing pandemic and take care of people’s lives.

In the coming time, the Government and the VFF will step up collaboration in COVID-19 prevention and control as well as manufacturing and production, in an effort to offset impacts of the pandemic.

They will continue to promote national solidarity and implement tasks in socio-economic development and ensuring national defence and security; and work together in law building and social accountability programmes for the next year and the 2021-26 period. 

He stressed that the Government has determined to operate with integrity, discipline and effectiveness in the 2021-26 term. 

The PM asked the VFF and other socio-political organisations, along with the Party Central Committee’s Commission on Mass Mobilisation to partner with the Government to carry out key tasks stipulated in the 13th National Party Congress, and successfully curb the spread of COVID-19 and foster socio-economic recovery and development.

The Government leader hoped that the VFF will strengthen communication work in encouraging good deeds while repelling wrongdoings, and promptly update information from reliable sources and refute fake and inaccurate news, particularly on COVID-19 prevention and control./.