Hanoi (VNA) – PartyGeneral Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on June 30 stressed the task of addressingshortcomings and filling in “vaccums” and “loopholes” so as to prevent corruptionand negative phenomena.

Speaking at a national conference held in Hanoi to review the10-year combat against corruption and negative phenomena, the Party leader also saidfighting corruption is a critically important but also extremely difficult and complicatedtask that requires resolute, persistent, continuous, and unceasing efforts from all levels and in all sectors and areas.

He emphasised that in the combat, it is a must to steer clear of subjectivity and hastiness but adamantlydeal with corruption, patiently conduct education, management and deterrence toprevent corruption, while staying vigilant and fighting against hostile forces’plots that take advantage of the corruption fight to sabotage the country’s Party,State and regime.

The General Secretary, who is also head of the central steering committee for corruption and negative phenomena prevention and control, underlined the necessity to strongly combine prevention with the proactive detectionand timely and stringent settlement of acts of corruption, noting that to boostprevention, it is important to perfect regulations and policies onsocio-economic affairs, increase socialist legality, and step up the buildingof an incorruptible and comprehensively strong Party and political system.

The fight against corruptionand negative phenomena must be connected with thrift practice and wastefulnessprevention, the Party building and rectification, the studying and following oflate President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, moral example, and style, along with thecombat against degradation in political thought, morality, and lifestyle, aswell as against “self-evolution” and “self-transformation”.

He stressed the need to stronglybring into play the role of the people-elected agencies, the Vietnam FatherlandFront and its member organisations, the masses, media agencies, businesses, andentrepreneurs in the combat.

Anti-corruption measures mustsuit the context of developing a socialist-oriented market economy in Vietnamand the country’s traditional culture, according to him.

Among the tasks for the timeahead, General Secretary Trong requested education, communications, and thriftpractice be enhanced among  cadres, Party members, and people; institutionalbuilding boosted; examination, supervision, inspection, auditing,investigation, hearing, and verdict enforcement stepped up; asset recovery improved; and the capacity of anti-corruption agencies further promoted.

He expressed his belief thatthe combat will record new andgreater strides and gain higher effectiveness, helping build an incorruptible andstrong Party and State, living up to the people’s trust and expectations./.