Defence academy asked to uphold role in nation safeguard
President Tran Dai Quang has urged the Vietnam People’s Army in general and the Defence Ministry’s National Defence Academy to continue upholding their crucial role in strengthening defence.
Hanoi (VNA) – PresidentTran Dai Quang has urged the Vietnam People’s Army in general and the DefenceMinistry’s National Defence Academy in particular to continue upholding their crucialrole in strengthening defence and safeguarding the nation.
He made the call during aceremony in Hanoi on January 3 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of theacademy’s traditional day.
The President stressed that theacademy needs to keep a good grasp of the situation, improve its strategicforecast capacity in order to provide timely advice to the Party, State, theCentral Military Commission and the Defence Ministry on national defence andmilitary issues.
He also required the academy topay more attention to summing up experience and research on military science toserve its training tasks, develop Vietnam’s own defence and military scienceand theory as well as provide scientific ground for the Party and State’spolicies on national construction and defence.
Over the past four decades, the NationalDefence Academy has trained tens of thousands officials, many of them areholding high-ranking positions in the Party, State and army.
In external relations, it hasoffered 70 training courses to high-ranking officials from Laos, Cambodia, Cubaand other countries.
The academy sent experts andscientists to the US, the Republic of Korea and Mozambique to give lectures,contributing to the Party and State’s defence external relations and improvingVietnam’s stature on international scene.
On the occasion, the State awardedthe Independence Order, first class, to the academy./.
President Truong Tan Sang asked the National Defence Academy to study deeply the global military science, especially modern and hi-tech warfare issues to advise the Party, State and the army and serve its training.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also Secretary of the Central Military Commission, has asked the National Defence Academy to increase scientific research while closely combining the reality with the theory in order to promote Vietnam’s military art and culture.
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.
President Truong Tan Sang has urged the National Defence Academy of Vietnam to raise its trainees’ awareness of the nation’s strategy to protect the Fatherland in the new context, firmly safeguard national territorial integrity and ensure a peaceful environment for the country’s development.
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Nghia affirmed that this is a milestone of special significance, affirming and honouring the the Vietnamese revolutionary press’s glorious tradition of 100 years of serving the revolutionary cause of the Party, serving the Fatherland, and serving the people.
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President Tran Dai Quang (Source: VNA) 
