President Truong Tan Sang attends the opening ceremony at the National Defense Academy

On September 17, President Truong Tan Sang attended the opening ceremony of the 2012-2013 school year at the National Defense Academy.

At the opening ceremony, Lieutenant General Vo Tien Trung, Director of the National Defense Academy, said that the Academy has constantly innovated and improved the quality of education and training, promoted scientific research, and focused on building a team of high-quality lecturers.

The Academy has applied active teaching and learning methods towards enhancing the training of students' thinking capacity; devoting a lot of time to self-study activities, discussion and practical research.

President Truong Tan Sang reviews the honor guard of the National Defense Academy.

Along with the training and education tasks, the Academy has been proactive in scientific research; completed many State, ministerial and sectoral level topics, directly serving the teaching work at the Academy; at the same time, it serves as a scientific basis for proposals to the Party, State and Ministry of National Defense in planning issues of national defense, military strategy and protection of the Fatherland in the new situation.

The Academy has also successfully completed its international cooperation tasks in training, thereby contributing to the effective implementation of the foreign policy of the Party and State.

Congratulating the cadres, lecturers, students, employees and soldiers of the National Defense Academy on the occasion of the opening of the new school year, President Truong Tan Sang stated that over the past years, the National Defense Academy has thoroughly grasped and strictly implemented the guidelines, viewpoints, resolutions and directives of the Party and State; well implemented the direction of the Government and the Ministry of National Defense; closely coordinated with ministries, departments and branches at the central level, agencies, units and localities nationwide, and at the same time strived to build the Academy up to the task.

The President suggested that the National Defense Academy should deeply study the military art tradition of our ancestors in the thousand years of building and defending the country; deeply study the Party and State's art of war direction; the rich and creative experiences of the Vietnamese army; deeply study the military science of countries around the world, especially the issues of modern warfare, wartechnologyhigh today, to both advise the Party, State, army, and serve training work.

According to Chinhphu-M