Hanoi (VNA) - Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong said onNovember 27 that Party inspection and supervision work must be carried out regularly,comprehensively, openly, democratically, and cautiously.

Speaking at anational conference on the work held in Hanoi by theSecretariat of the Party Central Committee, he called for more all-roundinspections of the degradation in political ideology, morality, and lifestyle.

Due attention must be paid to officials who are corrupt as well as to issues of publicconcern, the leader asked.

He highlighted therole of all-level Party Committees, particularly leaders, in the task, andasked the Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission to closely monitorthe performance of lower-level inspection boards in this regard.

Party inspectionand supervision work should be conducted in tandem with auditing, investigations,prosecutions, and settlements, Trong said, suggesting mechanisms to promote therole of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organisations, the media,press agencies, and the people in inspection and supervision work. 

The mostimportant job is to further improve the skills of inspection officials whoshould be able to meet requirements and tasks in the new circumstances, hesaid, adding that the fight against bad deeds must take place right in agencies and among inspectionofficials.

Inspection andsupervision work are a leadership method and a task of the Party, and all Partyorganisations and officials match the Party’s discipline, the leader stressed.

He ordered the furtherbuilding and perfecting of regulations of the Party and the laws of the State toimprove the quality and efficiency of inspection and supervision work.

The InspectionCommission reported that over the past tenure, all-level Party Committees andorganisations and inspection boards conducted inspections of millions of Partymembers and disciplined more than 87,000, including high-ranking Party andState leaders and officers in the armed forces, both retired and active.

This reflectsthe political resolve of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, and theSecretariat, as well as the mettle of the inspection sector in rectifying andbuilding a pure and strong Party, the Inspection Commission’s report said.

Trong saidall-level inspection commissions have played a significant role inanti-corruption, making it a major task and an important part of the inspectionand supervision work.

He also laudedthe performance of inspection officials, particularly members of the PartyCentral Committee’s Inspection Commission, in clarifying complex cases andproviding advice for the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, and theSecretariat regarding settlement work./.