Vietnam News Dec 27
VNA All people¹s national security protection movement reviewed A meeting was held yesterday in Ho Chi Minh City to review ten years of implementation of a joint resolution on Strengthening the All People¹s National Security Protection Movement in the New Period.¹ The meeting was held by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFFCC) and the Ministry of Public Security. According to the report, over the past decade, the all people¹s national security protection movement has been launched widely, attracting the participation of a great deal of people. The police provides the people with regular information on the policies and laws of the Party and State, and on the peaceful evolution scheme of hostile forces, on crimes and social evils so that the people¹s vigilance will be heightened. All localities have set up the council for security and order protection which show good performance. Bright examples have been noted and multiplied on a large scale. Addressing the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem praised the efforts by branches, sectors and ministries of all levels in implementing the joint resolution over the past ten years, combining the patriotic movement and the For National Security¹ movements with many others, thus contributing to stabilising political security for national economic development. He stressed that national security protection is the cause of the whole people in which the police is the core force. Closing the meeting, Lieutenant General Le Minh Huong, Politburo member and minister of public security emphasised that the great success of the movement was that the Fatherland Front and the Ministry of Public Security knew how to rely on the people and brought into full play the general strength of the great national unity. Seven provinces and cities received certificates of commendations for their outstanding accomplishments in national security protection movement. Present at the meeting were Nguyen Minh Triet, Politburo member and secretary of Ho Chi Minh City¹s Party Committee; Pham Gia Khiem, member of the Party Central Committee and deputy prime minister; Tran Van Dang, secretary general of the VFFCC; leaders of the fatherland fronts and public security from 61 provinces and cities. Activities to celebrate New Year in Hanoi Many cultural and sports activities will be held in Hanoi on the evening of December 30 and 31 and January 1, 2002 to celebrate the New Year. Art performances will be held in the open air at the Ba Kieu temple, the Indira Ghandi public garden near Hoan Kiem lake, Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc square, Lenin memorial and Van Dien town. Army¹s art troupes will give free performances in the suburban districts to serve the local people. A special song, dance and music programme, with the participation of famous artists, will take place at the August Revolution Square on December 31. US $4.7 million for population programmes in poor communes in 2002 An investment of VND 70 billion (US $4.7 million) will be channelled to reproductive health care and family planning programmes in almost 8,000 poor communes across the country in 2002. The figure was released at a meeting held in southern Binh Thuan province on December 26 to mark the Vietnam Population Day (December 26). According to Tran Thi Trung Chien, minister and chairwoman of the National Population and Family Planning Committee, the population growth rates in mountainous and remote rural communities are 1.7-1.9 times higher than the national average. Raising the management capacity of population workers and officials from the central to the grassroots levels, boosting the dissemination of information and education on reproductive health care and family planning; promoting reproductive health care, and combining population control efforts with hunger and poverty reduction activities are immediate purposes of population action plans in poor communes. The number of people in the reproductive age group using contraceptive measures in remote areas is equal to just 60% of the national average and only 42% of pregnant women have access to maternity care at child birth. Up to 70.6% of women have reproductive health problems, Minister Chien added. The population service will boost co-ordination with other socio-economic sectors to soon stabilise the country's population and raise its human development index so as to meet requirements of national industrialisation and modernisation. Vietnam is striving to register a replacement or zero growth rate by 2005. (VNA) Vietnam to train 550 Lao students The education ministers of Vietnam and Laos signed a co-operation agreement on education in Hanoi on December 26, under which 550 Lao students will come to study and conduct research in Vietnam. Also under the accord, 25 Vietnamese students will have chances to study in Laos. In addition, Vietnam will continue providing textbooks and compiling Vietnam-Laos and vice versa
Vietnam News Dec 27
Party leader reaffirms ties with Laos Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) General Secretary Le Kha Phieu has assured Laos's National Assembly Chairman Samane Vignaketh of Vietnam's unceasing efforts to constantly develop its ties with its neighbour. Vietnam always attached importance to further consolidating and developing the Vietnam- Laos relations for the benefit of each nation and for peace, stability, co-operation and development in the region and the world, Mr Phieu said while receiving the Lao National Assembly Chairman in Hanoi on December 26. Mr Phieu praised the result of the working sessions between the two National Assembly delegations, saying they were a positive contribution to developing the special solidarity and comprehensive co-operation between the two countries. He also expressed his belief that the Lao people would continue with new and greater achievements in making Laos a peaceful, independent, democratic, united and prosperous country. Mr Samane Vignaketh, who is on a week-long visit to Vietnam, reaffirmed the Laos's National Assembly's resolve to persistently strengthen and develop the special friendship and multi-faceted co-operation between Laos and Vietnam. He said he believed that the Vietnamese people would continue to record new and bigger successes through renovation and their industrialisation and modernisation programme to create a wealthy people, a prosperous country and an equitable, democratic and civilised society. (VNA) --- - President Luong meets PM Zhu Rongji Vietnam highly appreciated China's experience in socio-economic development and thought it useful to its own national construction and renovation, President Tran Duc Luong told Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji in Beijing on December 26. President Luong, who is making a five-day official visit to China, also spoke highly of the Chinese government's effective help and co-operation with the Vietnam government in economic development, investment, trade and tourism. He believed the results from the comprehensive co-operation between Vietnam and China would continue to develop and in so doing meet the aspirations of the two Parties, governments and peoples, while promoting prosperity and happiness between the two countries and contributing to peace, stability and development in the region and the world. Prime Minister Zhu Rongji welcomed the outcome of the talks between President Jiang Zemin and President Tran Duc Luong, and their shared view about the important orientation for bilateral co-operation between the two countries in the 21st century. Prime Minister Zhu appreciated the joint effort of China and Vietnam to expand economic, commercial, tourism, scientific, technical, educational and training-co-operation. He said that he hoped this co-operation would be effectively expanded for the benefit of the two peoples. (VNA) --- - Vietnam, China to boost legislative co-operation President Tran Duc Luong (left) meets Chinese Chairman of the National People's Congress Li Peng. Both Vietnam and China hoped their legislative co-operation would be increasingly consolidated and expanded in many fields. The hope was expressed by visiting Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong and Chinese Chairman of the National People's Congress Li Peng during their meeting in Beijing on December 26. The two parties held that the development of bilateral legislative ties would contribute to boosting the friendship and co-operation between the two Parties, States and peoples and meeting the aspirations and interests of both peoples, for peace, stability, co-operation and development in the region and the world at large. President Tran Duc Luong expressed his delight at the fine development of the relationship between the two countries in general and between the two legislative bodies in particular. He said that such relationship has helped each country perfect its own legal system and build a rule of law of the people, by the people and for the people. President Luong also expressed his joy at the great achievements recorded by the Chinese people in their open-door reform and socialism construction which was imbued with Chinese characteristics. He said he hoped that the Chinese people, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, would successfully build a prosperous country with an increasing role and position in the international arena. Chairman Li Peng, for his part, thanked President Luong for his fine sentiments toward China and its people. He welcomed positive steps of development in the China-Vietnam relations in the recent past, especially since the historic Beijing meeting between Chinese Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin and his Vietnamese counterpart Le Kha Phieu, who defined the guideline of "neighbour friendship, comprehensive co-operation,
