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President Triet visits southern army unit
President Nguyen Minh
Triet yesterday, Dec 3, called on the commanding headquarters of Military Zone 7
in HCM City on the occasion of its 65th founding anniversary. He hailed its
development and contribution to ensuring political security and social order in
the south-eastern region. “This is a strategic region with nine provinces and a
city and has a lot of socio-economic potential that is important to the whole
nation,” he said. “Military Zone 7 needs
to co-operate closely with authorities in provinces and HCM City,” he stressed.
Lt Gen Trieu Xuan Hoa, the Zone commander, told the President that the unit has
also made a big contribution to socio-economic development while ensuring
security. It has succeeded in
developing military expertise in many fields and in performing the tasks set at
the Viet Nam Communist Party’s 10th Congress. Triet said this year
Viet Nam has overcome many difficulties and challenges to achieve strong growth
and raise its status in the global arena.
Chinese
Navy ship visits Da Nang
The Chinese Navy’s frigate Xiangfan arrived in the central city of Da Nang on
December 3, beginning a friendly visit to the city.
The visit is aimed at enhancing
friendship between Vietnam and China in particular and the two countries’ armies
in general
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Photo: Vietnam+ | During its stay in Da Nang city, the
delegation will pay courtesy visits to the leaders of the municipal People’s
Committee, the High Command of Naval Zone C and the High Command of Military
Zone 5. They will play volleyball against a
team from the High Command of Naval Zone B and visit several beauty spots sites
around the city. Earlier, on December 1-2, both
Chinese and Vietnamese naval forces carried out their 10th joint
naval patrol of the Tonkin Gulf, which is held annually. Both navies plan to conduct joint
search and rescue drills on December 7.
New
rule requires specific plans for int’l conferences
The Government
yesterday issued a decision requiring both international and domestic
organisations to submit specific plans to relevant authorities when organising
conferences in Viet Nam. Under the decision,
plans for foreign-related conferences, whether they take place in Viet Nam or
both in Viet Nam and abroad, would be required to submit plans at least 20 days
before the event’s opening day. The Government,
ministries, district- level People’s Committees and central agencies will be
responsible for granting operation licences to the conferences. The Ministry of
Foreign Affairs will be in charge of managing and preparing an annual report of
how foreign-related conferences operate in Viet Nam to submit to the Government.
The ministry and
relevant authorities have the authority to close unlicensed conferences.
Vietnam underscores sustainable development at ICAPP
A Vietnamese delegation led by Hoang Binh Quan,
member of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and Head of the PCC Commission for
External Relations, attended the 6th General Assembly of the International
Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP 6) in Phnom Penh from December 1-3.
The participants issued the Phnom
Penh statement, pledging to ensure peace, security and stability in the region
based on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity; the right of
self-determination on economic issues and the political and social regimes of
each nation; non-interference in internal affairs; and peacefully solving
territorial disputes in line with international laws. They pledged to cooperate to
peacefully solve urgent issues of the region and the world, particularly poverty
reduction, establishment of an open region, enhancement of economic and trade
cooperation at regional and sub-regional levels, and turning Mekong sub-region
into Asia’s sustainable agricultural growth centre. They emphasised the need to struggle
for environmental protection, joining hands against natural calamities and
diseases and the protection of cultural heritage sites, and called for national
reconciliation in civil-conflict countries and a poverty reduction fund and
micro-finance fund. They also proposed setting up
organisations for women and youth in ICAPP and agreed to hold a tripartite
meeting between political parties of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Vietnamese delegation
participated in all activities of the meeting and stressed sustainable
development and the role of Asian political parties, proposed a mechanism for
exchange of regional security issues and sought an increase in people-to-people
exchanges, particularly among youth. The thee-day meeting drew 326
delegates from 89 political parties in 36 Asian nations, a number of heads of
state and former heads of state, and observers from non-Asian political parties
and organizations.
ASEAN-EU relations conference to take place in Hanoi
The third conference on ASEAN – EU relations called
“Community-Building, Bilateral/Bioregional relations and economic diplomacy”
will be held in Hanoi on December 9 and 10, said a press release of the Wallonia-Brussels
Delegation to Vietnam.
The conference will focus
discussions on building political security, an economic and socio-cultural
community, Vietnam-EU and ASEAN-EU relations, economic diplomacy in the 21st
century, lessons from the Vietnamese Chairmanship of ASEAN, and the Belgian
Presidency of the EU. “After the great success of the
first two conferences in 2008 and 2009, this third conference takes place at a
very special moment, at the end of a very successful Vietnamese presidency of
ASEAN, and also the very successful Spanish and then Belgian presidency of the
European Council. It will be an interesting opportunity to share experiences
about this,” said Franck Pezza, chief representative of the Wallonia-Brussels
Delegation to Vietnam. “This conference will also be an
opportunity to celebrate the 20 years of diplomatic relationship between Vietnam
and the EU and to look towards the future of a very rich and developing
relationship,” he said.
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