>Ho Chi Minh City Party Congress opens
>
>Ho Chi Minh City opened its seventh Party Congress yesterday, December 19,
>with the participation of almost 400 delegates representing more than 100,000
>local Party members.
>
>Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu, President Tran Duc Luong, Prime Minister
>Phan Van Khai, advisors to the Party Central Committee (PCC) Do Muoi and Vo
>Van Kiet, PCC former advisor Vo Chi Cong and National Assembly Vice Chairwoman
>Truong My Hoa attended the five-day congress.
>
>
> Party leader Le Kha Phieu speaks
> at the congress.
>
>
>Speaking at the congress, Party leader Le Kha Phieu praised the city Party
>Committee for its tenacious efforts and determination to record achievements
>over the past five years, thus making the people�s life more stable, helping
>create new incentive for the city to effectively implement the next five year
>plan. He also affirmed that the city has been deserved with the trust of the
>whole country.
>
>In his report delivered at the congress, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City
>Party Committee Nguyen Minh Triet, who is also Politburo member, highlighted
>the achievements recorded during the last term and affirmed a new quality and
>a correct orientation in line with the Party�s renovation, creating a premise
>for the process of industrialisation and modernisation of the
>socialist-oriented economy, thus making positive contributions to the
>achievements of the whole country.
>
>
> Party secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Minh Triet delivers a
>report
> at the congress.
>
>
>According to his report, Ho Chi Minh City recorded an average annual growth
>rate of 10.2%, almost one and half times higher than the national average over
>the past five years. Economic structure has seen positive movements. State-run
>economic sector in the city still plays a dominant role in key areas,
>accounting for 45% of the GDP. Private and foreign invested economic sectors
>have been considerably developed. Infrastructure has been improved.
>Scientific, technological and education activities have made important
>progress. People�s living standard has been improved with a per-capita annual
>income of US $1,365. Political stability in the city has been maintained in
>the past five years.
>
>As for development plan by 2010, Mr Triet emphasised that by that time, Ho Chi
>Minh City must be a civilised and modern city with about seven million people
>with a high level of wide knowledge and culture and with a per-head annual
>income of US $3,000. The city will also maintain the role as a centre of many
>fields of the whole country and be one of commercial and financial centres of
>Southeast Asia. The city, he added, will also maintain the national cultural
>identity and socialism.
>
>In the afternoon, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai addressed the congress as a son
>of the city and contributed ideas on many important issues.
>
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>State president praises legal agencies in HCM City
>
>State President Tran Duc Luong praised the efforts made by the Court of
>Appeals, the Standing Office of the People's Supreme Court in the south and
>the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court.
>
>He made the praises at the working sessions with those three agencies on the
>afternoon of December 19.
>
>President Luong emphasised the significance of building a socialist
>legislative State of the people, by the people and for the people, so that all
>citizens in the society live, work and study by the Constitution and laws.
>
>As we have not got many experiences in classifying economic and civil cases
>which causes difficulties in judgment of the trials, so it was necessary to
>study and find out effective solutions to the problem, President Luong
>stressed.
>
>He asked the agencies to eliminate, by all means, injustice and wrong
>judgments.
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>Lao NA chairman visits Vietnam
>
>Lao National Assembly Chairman Samane Vignaketh and his wife arrived in Hanoi
>on December 19 for an official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of National
>Assembly Chairman Nong Duc Manh.
>
>The Lao NA chairman was accompanied by Mr Thongloun Sisoulith, head of the Lao
>NA Committee for External Relations; Mr Bouasy Lorvansay, head of the Lao NA
>Committee for Economic and Finance; Mr Somphone Khagnong-ek, head of the Lao
>NA Office and Mr Thongsa Pangnasith, head of the Lao NA Committee for Culture
>and Social Affairs.
>
>The delegation also includes the deputy head of the Lao NA Legal Affairs
>Committee, NA deputies from Luang Prabang, Phongsaly and Bokeo provinces as
>well as the Saysomboune special zone, the deputy head of the Lao NA Office and
>the Lao ambassador to Vietnam.
>
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>Vietnam, Iraq boost co-operation
>
>A signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding of the
>inter-governmental meeting on boosting co-operation between Vietnam and Iraq
>was held yesterday at the Governmental Office.
>
>The signatories were Mr Le Huy Ngo, minister of agriculture and rural
>development and president of Vietnam-Iraq subcommittee, and Mr Mohammed Mehdi
>Saleh, Iraqi trade minister and president of the Iraq-Vietnam subcommittee.
>
>The two ministers stressed that the memorandum of understanding showed the
>development in the friendly and co-operative relations between Vietnam and
>Iraq. They also expressed their aspiration that the two sides would implement
>the deals and commitments well.
>
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>Denmark helps Vietnam in water programme
>
>Denmark will provide Vietnam with US $92 million in non-refundable aid to help
>its people in remote areas get access to safe water in the 2000-2005 period.
>
>This is under an agreement on water co-operation between Vietnam and Denmark
>signed on December 18.
>
>Addressing the signing ceremony, Deputy Planning and Investment Minister Vo
>Hong Phuc and the Danish ambassador to Vietnam, Ove Ullerup, emphasised the
>importance and practice of the programme, which supports technology, make
>investment in infrastructure of water supply and sanitation in remote and
>far-flung areas and disadvantaged communes.
>
>The agreement also helps strengthen bilateral relations between the two
>countries.
>
>
>Vietnam-UNICEF co-operation programme for 2001-2005 period inked
>
>A document for the implementation of a master plan of the Vietnam-UNICEF
>national co-operation programme, 2001-2005, was signed in Hanoi on December 19
>by Deputy Planning and Investment Minister Vo Hong Phuc and chief
>representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam,
>Morten Giesing.
>
>UNICEF will donate US $70 million to the Vietnam-UNICEF national co-operation
>programme for 2001-2005. Of this, US $50 million will come from UNICEF
>mobilised funds and the remainder from its budget.
>
>The programme is intended to help Vietnam reduce the death rate of children
>under five and of pregnant women at child-birth and improve social welfare for
>children and women in remote and mountainous areas.
>
>It comprises six major programmes and 12 projects with seven of the projects
>implemented nationwide and five in 66 districts.
>
>Minister-Chairwoman of the Vietnam Committee for Child Protection and Care
>Tran Thi Thanh Thanh, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Communist Youth Union
>Dao Ngoc Dung and Deputy Education and Training Minister Le Vu Hung witnessed
>the signing ceremony. (VNA)
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