Hanoi (VNA) – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong hailed the CentralMilitary Commission for well performing its military and national defence tasksduring a conference in Hanoi on August 29. 

Theevent saw the participation of President and member of the standing board ofthe Central Military Commission Tran Dai Quang, Prime Minister and member ofthe standing board of the Central Military Commission Nguyen Xuan Phuc, DefenceMinister and Vice Secretary of the Central Military Commission Ngo Xuan Lich.

Trong,who is also Secretary of the Central Military Commission, asked the commissionand the Defence Ministry to direct the implementation of decrees and resolutionsadopted by the Party Central Committee and the Resolution set by the 10th Military Party Congress.

Hecalled further attention to improving leadership capacity of the CentralMilitary Commission, ensuring that the army always leads the way in the implementationof the Resolution by the fourth plenum of the 12th Party CentralCommittee on Party building and rectification, driving back degradation inpolitical thought, moral virtue and lifestyle, and behaviors of“self-evolution” and “self-transformation” in Party rankings.

Thecommission was asked to well serve as a think-tank in terms of national defenceand military strategies, ensuring that the army will fulfill assigned tasks andtruly become a crucial force to firmly safeguard independence, sovereignty, unificationand territorial integrity, as well as defend the Party, State, people andsocialism.

Theleader also requested directing the implementation of the law-buildingprogramme on national defence by the 14th National Assembly,including soon completing amendments and supplements to the draft Law onNational Defence to submit to the legislature for approval.-VNA