STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . .Party leader highlights importance of national defence General Secretary Nong Duc Manh of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) emphasised the importance of national defence work while addressing a conference of army officers in Hanoi on July 2 and 3. He called for concerted efforts to build the army into a revolutionary, professional, and modern fighting force ready to defend Vietnam from any threat. Mr Manh, who is also Secretary of the Central Military Party Committee, spoke highly of the army's boundless loyalty to the Party and people and persistent adherence to the ideal of national independence and socialism. The army has always risen to the challenge when faced with adversity, he stressed. The officers' conference was held to review military work in the first six months of 2001 and discuss the implementation of military tasks in the second half of the year. Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Pham Van Tra who is also CPVCC Politburo member and Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Party Committee; Lieutenant General Le Van Dung, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Director of the Political General Department; and Deputy Defence Ministers Lieutenant General Phung Quang Thanh and Nguyen Huy Hieu were among those present at conference. (VNA) **** ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
