Attending the ceremony were comrades: General Pham Van Tra, former member of the Politburo, former Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Party Committee (now the Central Military Commission), former Minister of National Defense ; General Nguyen Tan Cuong, member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, Deputy Minister of National Defense; leaders and former leaders of the Ministry of National Defense...

General Nguyen Tan Cuong spoke at the ceremony.
Delegates attending the ceremony.

Speaking at the ceremony, General Nguyen Tan Cuong affirmed: After 80 years of building, fighting and growing, the Military Department has always accompanied the nation and the Army through historical periods: From the resistance war against French colonialism; against the US, saving the country; the resistance war to protect the Fatherland at the border, to the period of innovation and international integration.

At each stage, the Military Department has excellently fulfilled its important task of advising the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense, and the General Staff on force organization, mobilization, staffing, and building a regular, gradually modernized army.

On behalf of the President , General Nguyen Tan Cuong awarded the First Class Fatherland Protection Medal to the Military Department.

Lieutenant General Le Van Huong, Director of the Military Department, delivered a speech at the ceremony.

Art performance at the ceremony.

In the coming time, to successfully complete the assigned functions and tasks, General Nguyen Tan Cuong requested the Military Department to regularly grasp and grasp the military and defense viewpoints and guidelines of the Party and State; closely follow the requirements of the tasks, proactively advise and promptly propose to the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense, and the General Staff on the work of organizing forces, staffing, mobilizing, and building the people's armed forces, meeting the requirements and tasks of protecting the Fatherland in the new situation.

Continue to improve the organization of the Army in the direction of "refined, compact, strong, flexible, effective", ensuring a reasonable structure among the forces, prioritizing the forces on combat-ready missions, advancing straight to modernity; at the same time, pay attention to building a strong, high-quality reserve force. Focus on building a team of officers and employees of the Military Department with steadfast political will, pure moral qualities, capacity, intelligence, responsibility, scientific working style, close attachment to the people, maintaining and promoting the qualities of Uncle Ho's soldiers. Build a clean, strong, exemplary Party Committee of the Military Department, a comprehensively strong agency that is "exemplary, typical", always a united, unified, innovative, creative collective, excellently completing all assigned tasks.

On this occasion, authorized by the President, General Nguyen Tan Cuong awarded the First Class Fatherland Protection Medal to the Military Department for its outstanding achievements in training, combat readiness, building and organizing forces, contributing to building the Army, consolidating national defense, and firmly protecting the Fatherland.

News and photos: SON BINH

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