Chairman of the association Vu Trong Kim said there are 500,000 former youth volunteers in Vietnam, many of whom are still facing hardships. Given this, the association has carried out many activities to assist former youth volunteers, including raising funds to build 4,000 houses and open 7,000 savings accounts for the needy.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and representatives of the Vietnam Former Youth Volunteers’ Association.

On behalf of Party and State leaders, President Phuc offered the best wishes to former youth volunteers nationwide and called on them to continue making contributions to national development and defence.

Stressing the Party and State’s consistent attention to the revolution contributors, he spoke highly of the association’s initiatives to care for its members, expressing his hope for increasing the ones who not only bravely fulfilled their duties in resistance wars but have also excelled in poverty reduction and livelihood development.

He pointed out that 4,298 former volunteers with injuries and 275 others falling down in battlefields haven’t been recognised as war invalids or martyrs, while more than 9,000 former volunteers and their descendants suffering from Agent Orange/dioxin haven’t benefited from preferential treatment. This is a problem that authorities and the association need to work together to address.

The State leader also asked the association to coordinate with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee and relevant agencies to boost education of the youth on revolutionary traditions, resolve issues related to former volunteers, and propose amendments to the legal documents on policies for them.

Also on July 26, President Phuc attended a ceremony to commend outstanding revolution contributors in the people’s public security force.

The event saw the presence of 461 delegates representing tens of thousands of war invalids, martyrs’ families and other revolution contributors working in the force throughout history.

Appreciating their dedication to the Fatherland, the President highly valued the Ministry of Public Security’s efforts to care for them.

He told the force to continue effectively carrying out the Party and State’s policies on revolution contributors; join other ministries, sectors and localities in the verification and recognition of contributors, the search, repatriation and identification of martyrs’ remains, and the restoration of martyrs’ cemeteries and monuments; and strongly investigate wrongdoings in the implementation of policies.

The leader also requested practical and effective assistance for relatives of the contributors, voicing his belief that the war invalids, martyrs’ families and other revolution contributors in the public security force will contribute more to the safeguarding of national security and social order and safety.

Official highlights building of grassroots-level Party organisations

Building grassroots-level Party organisations should go with the political system building as they are the foundation of the Party, the political nucleus and the bridge between the Party and people, Truong Thi Mai, Politburo member and Secretary of the Party Central Committee said at a national conference on July 22.

Vietnam gives top priority to relationship with Laos: Party chief

Vietnam always treasures and gives top priority to its special relationship with Laos, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong told Lao Vice President Bounthong Chitmany in Hanoi on July 18.

Party Secretary of Bac Ninh province appointed Acting Minister of Health

Dao Hong Lan, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Bac Ninh provincial Party Committee and head of the province’s National Assembly deputies' delegation, has been appointed Secretary of the Party delegation to the Ministry of Health and Acting Minister of Health.

Bac Giang urged to further promote Party and political system building

(BGO) – A delegation led by Vo Van Thuong, Politburo member and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee, had a working session with the Standing Board of the Bac Giang provincial Party Committee on the implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the Resolution of the 19th Congress of the provincial Party Organisation.

Party chief receives Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong hosted a reception for Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov in Hanoi on July 6.

Source: NDO/VNA