Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (Source:VNA) He said the VFF needs to well performits role as a supervisor and a provider of social feedback in Party units andlocal authorities, so as to fight bureaucracy, corruption, wastefulness andnegative phenomena.
He added that he front’s chapters at all levels must renew working methods tomeet the legitimate rights and aspirations of the people, contributing tostrengthening close ties between the people and the Party and State.
He highlighted the VFF andsocio-political organisations’ responsibility for abiding by the resolution onParty building and rectification adopted by the fourth plenum of the 12th National Party Congress.
The Party chief said each official, cadre, Party member and VFF chapter mustfully grasp the resolution’s significance to the survival of the Party andnation, thereby taking specific actions to fight moral degradation as well asexpression of “self-transformation” and “self-evolution” within the Party.
One of the most important tasks is continuingto build the great national unity with a high consensus on ideology and action,towards the common goal of maintaining national independence and sovereignty, socio-politicalstability and building an increasingly prosperous and civilised nation, hesaid.
According to him, the VFF’s anothercrucial task is calling for public involvement in socio-economic development,including the campaign “All people stay united to build new-style rural areasand civilised urban areas” as well as national patriotic emulation drives.
The VFF needs to call on the peopleto exercise thrift and pool more resources for economic and culturaldevelopment, ensuring social progress and fairness, he said.
In his speech, President of the VFFCentral Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan said the conference is due to review the VFF’sperformance in 2016, adopt the VFF Central Committee’s action programme for2017 and the VFF’s action plan for the implementation of the resolution onParty building and rectification.
Participants will also sum upthree-year implementation of the Party Central Committee’s Decision on the VFFand socio-political organisations’ social supervision and criticism regulations,among others.
Last year, the VFF widely spread thecampaigns “All people stay united to build new-style rural areas and civilisedurban areas”, “Vietnamese prioritise using Vietnamese goods”, “Staying unitedand creative to improve output, quality, effectiveness and internationalintegration”.
The fund “For the Poor” raised 1.2trillion VND (52.2 million USD) while businesses and organisations offered 3.46trillion VND (150.4 million USD) in support of local social welfare programmes.
Localities built and repaired 49,949houses and provided help for hundreds of thousands of poor households.
Humanitarian activities for the poorand disaster-stricken victims were also launched.
As 2017 is the second year implementingthe resolution of the 12th National Party Congress and the thirdyear executing the resolution of the eighth Congress of the VFF and itschapters, the VFF and its chapters will focus on five key tasks, including raisingpublic awareness of the power of the great national unity, tapping the people’screativity and self-reliance spirit and launching national patriotic emulation campaigns,upholding democracy and protecting legitimate rights and interests of thepeople, fine-tuning mechanisms and improving the operating capacity of the VFFin the new period, and continuing to expand and improve the quality ofpeople-to-people diplomacy.
In conclusion, the Party leader askedthe Party units and authorities to work closely with the VFF, and wished that morepublic feedback would be collected via the VFF, which will serve as a referencefor the Party to refine its policies and guidelines.
At the event, the VFF appointed morestaff to its Presidium and Central Committee.-VNA
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