VietNamNet Bridge - “The 11th National Party Congress has
successfully completed all programmes as planned,” said newly-elected Party
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in his closing speech on January 19.

Reviewing the results of nine days of intensive work, Mr
Trong said, “The Congress held discussions in a frank and democratic manner and
approved important documents which is of strategic significance to national
development. They are the political platform for the transitional period to
socialism in Vietnam
(supplemented and revised in 2011) and the socio-economic development strategy
for the 2011-2020 period, political orientations and tasks for the 2011-2015
period, and amendments and supplements to the Party statute.

The Congress elected the Party Central Committee which
consists of outstanding members representing 3.6 million qualified and virtuous
Party members capable of assuming uphill tasks entrusted to by the Party and
people.

All documents adopted at the Party Congress included a full
summary of theories and practical reality after 20 years of implementing the
political platform, ten years of implementing the socio-economic development
strategy (2010-2020) and five years of implementing of orientations and
socio-economic tasks (2006-2010). They are also a combination of brainpower,
iron will power and aspirations by the whole Party and people, and an
affirmation of the Party’s views, guidelines, targets and tasks in the new
development period full of prospects and challenges from 2011 to 2020 and the
next years.

The Congress demonstrated the Party’s great determination to
implement its target of raising leadership capacity and combative strength as
well as bringing national strength into full play and promoting the Doi Moi
(Renewal) process.

The Party Central Committee (11th tenure) vowed to do its
best to serve the nation and people and constantly strive to increase
professional capacity and moral quality in order to fulfill the major targets
and tasks set for the next term.

The success of the Party Congress was a great source of
encouragement for the whole Party and people to overcome every difficulty and
challenge, to achieve the goal of turning Vietnam to become a modern and
industrialized country by 2020, Mr Trong stressed.

The Congress regarded Party building as a key task and a
decisive factor in increasing the quality of Party leadership in the following
years. They said it would make sure the Party deserve to be the vanguard and a
loyal representative of the working class and the whole nation.

On the behalf of the Congress, Mr Trong thanked people
throughout the country and overseas Vietnamese as well as international friends
for their fine sentiments and special attention to the major national event.

Party leader Trong asked Party organisations at the
grassroots level to continue study and thoroughly grasp all resolutions and
documents adopted at the Congress, carry out action plans to implement Party
resolutions and promote national patriotic movements among people across the
country.

At the closing ceremony, Ngo Van Du member of the Communist
Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s (CPVCC)Secretariat and Head of the CPVCC
Office read the draft resolution and the resolution of the 11th National Party
Congress was approved.

After the closing ceremony, Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong
chaired a press briefing with a large number of Vietnamese and foreign
reporters.

Mr Trong thanked them for reporting progress and results of
the Party Congress to the people throughout the country and overseas Vietnamese
abroad as well as international friends.

“The 11th National Party Congress was a great success and
fulfilled all programmes with good results. The success of the Congress
displayed the democracy and frankness of the Party during its discussion over
congress documents and the personnel plan. As many as 176 congratulatory
messages sent to the Party Congress demonstrated international friends’
attention, support and encouragement for Vietnam’s Doi Moi (Renewal) process
under the leadership of the CPV.” Mr Trong said.

Source: VOV/VNA