Hanoi (VNA) - State President Luong Cuong on January 22 visited and extended Lunar New Year (Tet) wishes to members of the Security Guard Command.
The State leader hailed the force's performance over the years in all fields, saying it has ensured utmost safety for VIPs, and consistently excelled in fulfilling its mission, earning trust and recognition as a key, reliable and loyal force of the Party and State.
He emphasised the force's heavy tasks for 2025 when many important political and cultural events of the nation will be organised, including the 14th National Party Congress.
This requires the force to show high determination, unity, and great efforts to overcome all difficulties to complete all the assigned tasks.
President Cuong urged the force to follow the comprehensive leadership of the Party, ensure absolute safety for high-ranking leaders, key locations, and international delegations, build a pure, strong, regular, elite and modern force, while paying greater attention to human resources training. The force should focus on proactively identifying and neutralising threats to prevent any breaches of security, regardless of circumstances, while strengthening the application of science and technology in performing its tasks, he said.
The State leader also reminded the force of reviewing, supplementing and perfecting laws related to security guarding, and effectively implementing the law on supplements and adjustments to a number of articles of the Law on Security Guard Force.
Describing the Security Guard as a specialised force, he stresses the need for distinct policies and mechanisms for it, he stated.
The force should foster coordination with relevant units, sectors and agencies and expand international cooperation for better performance, he underlined.
On this occasion, President Cuong presented Tet gifts to the Security Guard Command and its staff members./.
