VNA
Greatest, most comprehensive victory for 2001:
General Secretary Le Kha Phieu
General Secretary Le Kha Phieu meets
students of National Economics University.
On the occasion of the New Year, the first year of the third millennium and
the 21st century, there was a meeting between the Nhan Dan (People)
newspaper and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Le Kha
Phieu who expressed some of his opinions upon entering the first year of the
new century.
Mr Le Kha Phieu said:
"We are happy people who live on the eve between the two millennia and two
centuries and could afford a moment to take a look back at the past century
and think about the new century.
For our nation, the past century, the 20th century, was a glorious century,
a great century.
The working class of Vietnam was formed and stepped immediately on the
political arena.
Uncle Ho had found the path for national salvation, and without that correct
path for national salvation, our country could not be able to exist as it
does today.
Our Party came into being and shouldered the historic task.
The August Revolution was successful, giving birth to the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam, today the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Our people have defeated aggressive wars, completely liberating and
defending the Motherland.
We have, step-by-step, built socialism, in which the renovation work since
1986 has marked a period of important development.
We have fulfilled the international task to friendly countries. In no
century had our nation made a contribution to the development of the world
as in the 20th century, full of events and challenges.
In this century, our country gave birth to the greatest hero of the great
heroes of the nation, it is President Ho Chi Minh. The most heroic and
talented generation of the heroic and talented generations of the nation was
also born. It is the Ho Chi Minh generation.
And it is really happy, through challenges, storms and floods, we had a
successful 2000, the last year of the century, being worthy with the
tradition of the nation and the Party.
Our nation is a dynamic, creative, consistent nation which knows how to
bring into full play its own strength and has never flinched from any
difficulty.
The 21st century will be the 100 years of the struggle for national
independence and socialism.
You have asked me what I am wishing for? I would like to give this answer: I
wish that we will win the greatest and most comprehensive victory in the
first year of the century. In his life time, Uncle Ho would have this Tet
wish: This Spring will be much better than the last Spring. The year 2001
will be more successful than 2000 and the years before that.
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Party leader visits Phung Xa commune, Thach That district, Ha Tay.
Party leader visits Phung Xa commune, Thach That district, Ha Tay.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Le Kha Phieu urged
Ha Tay province's administration to invest more in developing traditional
craft villages and export-oriented production, during his visit on January
21.
The Party leader heard a report by provincial Party Secretary Khuat Huu Son
on the local achievements in 2000, including its 7.2 % growth in the gross
domestic product (GDP), a rise of 15 % in industrial and handicraft
production, and an export value of US $45 million.
Mr Phieu praised Ha Tay's efforts to join the national one million
tonne-of-food club with its record production of 1.2 million tonnes last
year.
He suggested to the provincial administration to invest more in traditional
craft villages and export-oriented production while calling at a private
construction steel and farm tool mill. The mill is run by 44-year-old Chu
Van Bay at Phung Xa village, Thach That district.
Mr Phieu, however, urged local authorities to take care of environmental
issues while developing traditional craft villages.
The Party leader also called on and presented gifts to Heroic Mother Nguyen
Thi Vach whose three sons all fell during the anti-US war. The 82-year-old
mother now lives with neighbours and with support from the local
administration.
This is a visit traditionally made by national leaders to key localities on
the occasion of the lunar New Year festival, which falls on January 24 this
year.
Earlier, Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu praised the
revolutionary and patriotic spirit of veterans while visiting the Hoa Lo
prison, an historic relic in Hanoi on January 20.
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Party leader Le Kha Phieu visits Hoa Lo prison.
Mr Phieu then called upon the young generations to promote the revolutionary
and patriotic traditions bestowed upon them to take the country to
socialism.
The General Secretary made a traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) visit to
soldiers of the capital's garrison the same day. He lauded their
achievements in the past year and asked them to remain vigilant and combat
ready to protect the Party and socialist system and fulfil all military
tasks.
Later, he visited the Army's Political General Department to honour the Tan
Ty (Year of the Snake) Tet festival. (VNA)
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President visits northern provinces
The building of agricultural and industrial zones, developing the production
of agricultural commodities with improved processing technology and
expanding domestic and export markets should be the focus of tasks carried
out by northern Hung Yen province in the new year, says President Tran Duc
Luong.
The president, who made a working visit on January 20, praised the
province's achievements, including the reduction of the proportion of
agriculture in its economic structure from 61 % to 41.5 % and the
corresponding rise in the proportion of industrial production from 15 to
27.8 %.
The change helped the province to a 11.08 % growth in Gross Domestic
Product, GDP, last year; it also earned US $37.5 million from exports and
reduced the rate of poor households to 6.67 %.
In addition, the province now has 183 private and joint stock companies and
28 craft villages.
But the president said he hoped all members of the provincial Party
Committee would improve themselves by fighting subjective thinking and any
separation from the people.
President Luong also visited social policy beneficiaries, war invalids and
poor families, teachers and talented students in Hung Yen town for the Lunar
New Year.
The president arrived in Ninh Binh province on January 18 for a New Year
visit. (VNA)
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PM pays Tet visit to Phnan Van Khai
PM Phan Van Khai visits staff, war invalids and sick soldiers
at the Kim Bang Convalescence Centre for War Invalids.
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai paid a Tet (lunar New Year festival) visit to
the northern province of Ha Nam on January 20.
Talking with provincial key leaders, Prime Minister Khai praised the
provincial Party Committee and people for their achievements recorded in
socio-economic fields and Party building work. He also asked the province to
make efforts to build a more prosperous and civilised province with the
tradition of fondness of learning. The prime minister said he wished the
provincial Party Committee and people more successes on the occasion of New
Year.
While there, he heard a report by Pham Quang Nghi, Party Central Committee
member and provincial Party Committee secretary. The report highlighted the
achievements made by the province since its re-establishment. Last year, Ha
Nam had reached and exceeded all socio-economic development targets, well
implemented the sixth Party Central Committee's Resolution and successfully
carried out Party committees at all levels and the recent 16th provincial
Party Committee.
Prime Minister Khai also visited staff, war invalids and sick soldiers at
the Kim Bang Convalescence Centre for War Invalids. He spoke highly of
wounded and sick soldiers who have overcome their illness and continued to
promote the tradition of Uncle Ho's soldiers. He asked the staff of the
centre to take better care of wounded and sick soldiers in order to make
this place forever be a real home for them.
The prime minister presented gifts to war invalids and sick soldiers.
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NA chairman visits Hai Ba Trung District
NA Chairman Nong Duc Manh visits residential care home in Mo Lao, Ha Tay
province.
National Assembly Chairman Nong Duc Manh visited Hai Ba Trung district of
Hanoi on January 20 to wish them a happy Tet. He was accompanied by Minister
of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Hang and Deputy
Secretary of Hanoi Party Committee Tran Van Tuan.
Chairman Nong Duc Manh heard a report on the district's socio-economic
situation in 2000 and programme for 2001. He wished them success and
achievements in many fields with more jobs and less social vices. He visited
and presented gifts to several families of revolutionary veterans in the
district. He wished them good health and asked them to continue setting an
example for children.
The chairman then visited a residential care home in Mo Lao, Ha Tay province
where he met Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, fathers, mothers and wives of war
martyrs and retired old lonely people. The average age of people living in
the centre is 82 and the oldest of them all is 101.
He expressed his thanks, on behalf of the Party, the State and the people,
to them for giving their beloved ones to the country for the cause of
independence and freedom. He praised the staff of the centre for good taking
care of the people. He wished all of them good health and longevity, and the
staff, success in their work.
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Activities to welcome Tet
Border guards give health care and Tet gifts
to relatives of war martyrs in Dong Thap province.
Quang Binh province sent many delegations to remote areas to present Tet
gifts to people, especially families which had made a lot of contributions
to the country and poor families.
The Centre for Student Assistance under the Student Association of Ho Chi
Minh City held a meeting with students who celebrate Tet away from home. The
centre presented 600 packages of gifts and 1,000 copies of Tet newspapers to
the students.
Nam Dinh province will organise a special cultural programme, which will
include the competitions in art performances, displays of rare old objects
in the provincial museum and ornamental trees and photographs and meeting of
young people in the province.
Thai Nguyen, Quang Binh and Can Tho provinces, on the other hand, held a
Spring Newspaper Festival for all the publications in the province and other
provinces nationwide. Lai Chau province held a flower market and many
national and traditional sport and cultural events along with mobile film
showing teams to serve people living in remote areas.
Thua Thien-Hue held a tree planting festival and lamp lighting festival on
the Huong River.
The Vietnam Circus, the UNESCO Centre for Youth Sports and Culture and the
Guangxi Circus Troupe will organise a special circus performance programme
in Vietnam starting from January 25 to February 1, 2001
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Vietnam delivers aid to Iraq
Iraq's Deputy PM Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim Al-Azzawi welcomes
Deputy PM Nguyen Cong Tan.
More than three tonnes of food, medicine and medical instruments were
delivered to Iraq aboard a Vietnam Airlines Airbus A320 on January 19.
Iraq's Deputy PM and Finance Minister Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim Al-Azzawi
described the humanitarian aid, conveyed by a Vietnamese government
delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Cong Tan, as a manifestation
of solidarity and friendship between the two countries.
It was also a significant gift to the Iraqi people who have suffered from
the United Nations' severe and cruel embargo for more than ten years.
Mr Tan told Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that Vietnam had protested
against the unfair and inhuman embargo and asked that it be lifted so the
Iraqi people could live normally and integrate with the international
community.
The Deputy Prime Minister expressed his sympathy with the Iraqi people in
their difficulties and said that he hoped they would overcome their
temporary hardships to build a happy and prosperous country.
President Hussein praised the efficiency of the friendship and co-operation
between Iraq and Vietnam. He said that he would do his utmost to boost and
expand the traditional friendship between the two nations.
During his two-day visit that ended on January 20, the Deputy Prime Minister
discussed ways to expand friendship and co-operation between Vietnam and
Iraq with Deputy President T Y Ramadan, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and
other Iraqi senior officials.
He also visited several economic, cultural and educational establishments in
Baghdad.
Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Le Huy Ngo, President of the
Vietnam Red Cross Nguyen Trong Nhan and representatives of 40 leading
businesses were included in the delegation. (VNA)
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Thai experts praise education experience
Thai experts said they highly appreciated Vietnam's experience in teaching
the natural sciences at a seminar held in Bangkok on January 18.
The seminar, held by the Thai National Education Committee Office to find
why Vietnam has succeeded in natural science training, drew more than 100
experts and officials from the Thai Education Ministry and Institutions.
The Director of the Thai National Centre for Development of Gifted Students
Usany Potisuk, delivered the findings of Thai investigators who learned from
Vietnam's experiences in the field.
Usany Potisuk said that the Vietnam government actively supported natural
science education and has applied efficient methods to select gifted
children from junior and senior high schools and opening special classes for
them.
In particular, Vietnam had maintained special curriculums in maths, physics,
chemistry, information technology and foreign languages for high school
students selected to study at universities.
Meanwhile, head of the Educational Policy and Planning Development Bureau
Chinphate Phumirattana told the seminar that in four study tours of the
region, he found the knowledge of Thai students not as high as that of
Vietnamese students, except for biology.
Participants in the seminar agreed that Thailand should organise specialised
schools and select special classes for gifted students. (VNA)
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Activities celebrate Tet abroad
Many activities were organised abroad to celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year).
A Beijing-based Nhan Dan newspaper correspondent reported that Vietnamese
ambassador to China, Bui Hong Phuc, held a meeting with Vietnamese nationals
on January 20.
Mr Phuc briefed the attendants about the socio-economic achievements of
Vietnam in 2000 and the new development in the China-Vietnam relations and
praised the contributions of the Vietnamese nationals in helping the flood
victims. The ambassador wished the attendants good health, happiness and
prosperity in the New Year.
On January 23, Vietnam's Embassy in Beijing will hold a traditional meeting
with Lao cadres working in China and a programme to welcome the New Year for
the embassy cadres and workers.
Vietnam's Embassy in Paris held a meeting to welcome Tet on January 19,
according to a Nhan Dan newspaper correspondent in Paris.
Vietnamese nationals of all strata in France, representatives from the
Communist Party of France and embassies of other countries, and cadres from
Vietnam's agencies in France attended the meeting. The guests enjoyed
Vietnamese Tet specialities and an art performance, as well as a live
television programme for Vietnamese Overseas.
A correspondent of the Vietnam News Agency in Washington reported that a
meeting to mark Tet was held on January 18 by Vietnam's Embassy. About 300
guests, including representatives from the US Congress, non-governmental
organisations, the press circle, diplomats and US Vietnamese took part in
the meeting.
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