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Young managers to work in localities Many young managers and leading officials of Vietnam will be sent from the central to local levels and vice-versa to hold new posts or work in new capacities, in order to train them to meet the growing demands of national development. This rotation will be conducted nationwide in conformity with a resolution issued by the Party Politburo on January 25 to this effect. The objective of the new rotation is to provide managers and leading officials, especially young ones, with new conditions and opportunities to train themselves and help them mature quickly, the resolution said. It added "This is a very important policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam - an effort to improve the organisational and personnel work of the Party - as well as the entire political system and armed forces of Vietnam." The resolution also highlighted the struggle against regionalism and efforts to prevent negative attitudes and aspects while carrying out the rotation. The resolution said that the rotation will cover officials who are managers and administrative leaders, excluding those who work as professional specialists and experts. (VNA) **** General Secretary urges continued Party building, rectification The Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee should focus their work in 2002 on serving the continued campaign on Party building and rectification, Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh has said. Mr Manh was addressing a national conference of Party inspectors in Hanoi on January 28. Party inspectors should be qualified, politically, professionally and ethically, and ready to overcome hardship to fulfill their assignments, the Party leader noted. He told the conference that inspection should be conducted of the implementation of Party resolutions by Party Committee members, Party organisations and Party members when there are signs of violations. The fight against individualism, opportunism, corruption and wasteful spending of public funds is a difficult task. Preventing and driving back corruption and wasteful spending of public funds is not only the resolution of the Party but also an order from the people, the Party leader said. Under the strategic line for national socio-economic development in the first decade of the 21st century adopted at the Ninth Congress of the CPV, Vietnam has been striving to get rid of poverty and the state of under- development and become a basically industrialised and modernised country by 2020, the Party leader reaffirmed. Mr Manh said he hoped Party inspectors would carry out their jobs creatively and raise their work efficiency to live up to the people's and Party members' trust. Vu Quoc Hung, permanent deputy chief of the CPV Central Committee Inspection Commission, delivered a report reviewing the accomplishments of the commission last year. An outstanding accomplishment by the commission last year was to help Party organisations from the grassroots to the central level successfully organise their congresses, according to the report. It also said progress was also made in Party inspection work and implementation of Party disciplines in 2001, the first year of exercising the resolutions passed at the ninth congress of the CPV. (VNA) **** Cambodian PM visits Military Zone 7 Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen made a visit to officers and soldiers of the Command of the Military Zone 7, in the southern province of Dong Nai, on the morning of January 28. The Cambodian Prime Minister has been in Ho Chi Minh City since January 26 for the second meeting of the Prime Ministers of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. During the visit, Prime Minister Hun Sen presented the Friendship Order, first class, Cambodia's highest distinction for foreigners, to the Commander of the Military Zone 7, Lieutenant General Phan Trung Kien, and the Friendship Order, second class, to the armed forces of the Military Zone 7. The Cambodian prime minister also presented the Friendship Order, second class, to the Party Committee and the People's Committee of Dong Nai province. The presentation of the honours constituted an encouragement to and a high evaluation of the close co-operation and solidarity between the units of Vietnam's Military Zone 7 and Cambodian commands in particular, and between the armies and peoples of the two countries in general, the prime minister said. He met and spoke with generals and other senior officers who once worked in Cambodia and paid tribute to the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Cemetery in Long Giao commune, Long Khanh district, in Dong Nai province. (VNA) **** Government seek new measures for socio-economic development Cabinet members should find out new concrete and practical measures to implement socio-economic tasks set for 2002 at the January session, said Prime Minister Phan Van Khai. Mr Khai was speaking at the opening ceremony of the government's three-day meeting in Hanoi on January 28. He said the most important solution should deal with investment restructuring in the direction of improving the economy, focusing on raising productivity, efficiency and competitiveness while boosting the export of Vietnamese products. The prime minister laid stress on addressing urgent social issues and raising management capacity of State agencies, thus ensuring strict and smooth implementation of policies and solutions. Prime Minister Khai pointed to advantages for the country to fulfil its socio-economic tasks in 2002. The world has considered Vietnam "a safe harbour" and committed US $2.4 billion in ODA for 2002. He also emphasised socio-political stability and the effective conclusion of the Vietnam-U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreement as from late last year. The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Phan Van Khai and his deputies Nguyen Tan Dung, Nguyen Manh Cam, Nguyen Cong Tan, and Pham Gia Khiem. (VNA) **** Court sector starts work for 2002 Representatives of the people's courts nationwide gathered in Hanoi on January 28 to start the work for 2002. President Tran Duc Luong sent a letter to the meeting, saying he was proud of the Courtıs work in the past year, yet he still felt very disappointed at the mistakes made during judicial works in many cases which created dissatisfaction among the people. He said he hoped that the work will be done better this year to ensure the law and order are well observed. National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An, in his speech at the meeting, said the court is of the people, by the people and for the people and that every person working for the court should improve the skills and qualifications along with revolutionary virtues to serve the people, the Party and the State and to live up their expectations. The report by the people's supreme judge, Trinh Hong Duong, at the meeting numbered the case the sector handled in 2001 at 197,584 and completed 167,584 cases, or 84.8% of the workload for the year. The report said most of the cases were handled within the timeframe set forth by the law. The sector took tougher measures against crimes related to drugs, social evils, national securities and corruption. The judge detailed examples of poor handling of several typical cases for discussion at the meeting for better experience in future works. The three-day meeting will focus on the work for 2002 to ensure development of a market oriented economy under socialist guidelines, which guarantee the development of education and training, culture, science and technology and social order and security to help make the socio-economic development programme for 2001-2005 a success. **** First meeting of Election Council convenes The first meeting of the of the Eleventh National Assembly Election Council held its first meeting under the chairmanship of National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An, who is also the chairman of the council, in Hanoi on January 28. The date for the eleventh national assembly election is fixed on May 19, 2002 and the council includes 21 members, according to the Resolution 284 dated on January 26 of the National Assemblyıs Standing Committee. Mr Vu Mao, as the councilıs secretary general, reported the rights and responsibilities of the council and the plan to be deployed for the coming election. National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An assigned tasks to members, who discussed the implementation of the councilıs rights and responsibilities. The council has agreed to set up two sub-committees, including a propaganda committee headed by Mr Vu Mao and a Security, Social Order and Safety committee headed by Nguyen Phuc Thanh, National Assembly vice chairman. **** Australia values ties with Vietnam: Australian FM Australia highly values co-operative and constructive relations with Vietnam within the framework of regional forums, such as the Asian-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Forum and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has said. Speaking at a function to announce the new Australian ambassador to Vietnam in Sydney on January 27, Minister Downer also said that Australia supports Vietnam's joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Australia boasts time-honoured, constructive and diversified ties with Vietnam, the minister noted, saying the relations between the two countries have recently been broadened to co-operation in the executive and defence domains. Vietnam is Australia's 18th largest trading partner with two-way trade reaching AUD 2.9 billion in the 2000-2001 period. Vietnam is also the third biggest recipient of Australian aid. Between 4,500 and 5,000 Vietnamese students study in Australia annually, four times higher than those from any other country. Around 200,000 overseas Vietnamese in Australia have made active contributions to Australia, Minister Downer emphasised. (VNA) **** Cambodia volunteers' remains repatriated A solemn ceremony to receive 183 sets of remains of Vietnamese army volunteers who gave up their lives in Cambodia during the past war was held in the southwestern border province of Tay Ninh. Representatives from the governments and the Defence Ministries of Vietnam and Cambodia and officials of the two border provinces of Tay Ninh and Kompong Cham attended the ceremony. A re-burial service for the fallen Vietnamese combatants was held afterwards at the Tay Bien district cemetery in Tay Ninh province. Thousands of local people stood on both sides of the 20 kilometre road portion from Xa Mat border gate to the cemetery to receive the remains on their way back home. Also on January 28, 54 sets of remains of Vietnam's army volunteers who were killed in action in Cambodia were reburied in the national Ngoc Hoi cemetery in the border central highland province of Kon Tum. The remains were found by group K. 53 of Kon Tum's Military Command in Cambodia's Ratanakiri province last December. Earlier, Ratanakiri people held a memorial service for the fallen Vietnamese combatants. (VNA) _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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