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Russian expert hails CPV’s leadership role in Vietnam

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has played an important role in the national struggle for independence, Doi moi (reform) and socio-economic development in Vietnam, according to Evgheni Vasilievich Kobelev, a Russian expert on Vietnamese study.
Russian expert hails CPV’s leadership role in Vietnam ảnh 1At the conference on 70th anniversary of Vietnam-Russia relations in Moscow (Photo: VNA)

Moscow (VNA) - The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has playedan important role in the national struggle for independence, Doi moi (reform)and socio-economic development in Vietnam, according to Evgheni VasilievichKobelev, a Russian expert on Vietnamese study. 

The scholar from the Centre for the Study of Vietnam and ASEAN under theRussian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies told VietnamNews Agency’s correspondents in Moscow on the sidelines of a conference on the70th anniversary of Vietnam-Russia relations that the CPV is a uniquephenomenon in the international communist movement.

He noted that there are no factions within the CPV and the Party is incharge of handling all issues in the nation.

Besides, the CPV has always stayed close to the people, put the people firstand paid attention to the people's quality of life, social affairs and manyother issues, he highlighted.

The scholar laid stress on the CPV’s role in the two resistance wars againstthe French colonialists and the US imperialists, saying the Party had found theright way to fight the powerful invaders. During those wars, the CPV was a great organiser, able to promote the power of the nation in the struggle forindependence, he said, adding that the signing of the Paris Peace Accordsallowed the CPV to mobilise all available resources to liberate the southernregion.

The Russian expert also highlighted the CPV's role in the national economicdevelopment, pointing to the fact that Vietnam's GDP expanded 6-7 percentper year in the past two decades, compared to 1-1.5 percent recorded inRussia./.
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