The National Defence Academy of Vietnam should work harder to further
better its training mission, while making more proposals to the Party
and State on military, denfence and security matters, National Assembly
Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung has urged.
Speaking at
the Academy Year-End Ceremony on July 30 in Hanoi , the NA leader
underscored the country’s major defence and security tasks of
safeguarding the national independence, sovereignty, unification and
territorial integrity, and protecting the Party, State, people and
socialism.
He praised the academy’s efforts in
creatively renovating its training programme and curriculum,
successfully fulfilling its mission of training key officials of the
military force as well as the Party and State agencies.
Chairman Hung made it clear that the country is facing many urgent and
long-term challenges in defence and security, requiring the close
combination between strategies of national construction and defence, as
well as between economic development and defence.
At
the same time, it is necessary to promote defence diplomacy, while
thoroughly grasping the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance,
openness, diversification and multilateralisation of international
relations, he said.
Meanwhile, it is crucial to
prevent war and secure long-term peace and security, while staying
active in defence activities and settling all dispute issues based on
international law, he added.
According to Director
of National Defence Academy, Lieutenant General Vo Tien Trung,
currently, the academy has been offering training courses to 517 senior
military officers and officials from central Party and State agencies.-VNA