The Congress of the Nghe An Border Guard Party Committee for the 2020-2025 term elected 15 comrades to the new Executive Committee.

Attending and directing the Congress were the delegation of the Central Organizing Committee led by Comrade Vo Thanh Nam - Deputy Chief of the Office of the Central Organizing Committee; Major General Phung Quoc Tuan - Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Deputy Political Commissar of the Vietnam Border Guard; Major General Ha Tan Tien - Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Deputy Commander of Military Region 4. On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; comrades in the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee: Ho Phuc Hop - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee; Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; Cao Thi Hien - Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Major General Nguyen Huu Cau - Director of the Provincial Police; Nguyen Nam Dinh - Secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies Bloc; Phan Duc Dong - Secretary of the Vinh City Party Committee; representatives of leaders of local departments, branches and sectors. Photo: Pham Bang

160 delegates representing nearly 1,500 party members from 33 grassroots party organizations in the entire Provincial Border Guard Party Committee attended the Congress. Photo: Pham Bang

Speaking at the opening of the Congress, Colonel Tran Hai Binh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Commander of the Provincial Border Guard emphasized that the 11th Congress of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee of Nghe An, term 2020 - 2025 is a political event of great significance, demonstrating the political mettle, intelligence, belief, and determination to build a strong Party Committee, build an increasingly disciplined and comprehensively strong Nghe An Border Guard force, meeting the requirements and tasks of firmly protecting the sovereignty and security of the border and sea areas of the Fatherland in the new situation.

With the important tasks set by the Congress, on behalf of the Presidium, Colonel Tran Hai Binh requested the delegates to uphold their sense of responsibility, intelligence, promote democracy, solidarity, and focus on discussing and contributing quality to the documents and implementing well the contents and programs set forth by the Congress, actively contributing to the success of the Congress.

Colonel Tran Hai Binh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Commander of the Nghe An Provincial Border Guard opened the Congress. Photo: Pham Bang

The political report of the Party Executive Committee of Nghe An Provincial Border Guard, term X, reported by Colonel Le Nhu Cuong - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of the Provincial Border Guard, stated: During the 2015 - 2020 term, the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee has thoroughly grasped and implemented the directives and resolutions of the superiors on national defense - security tasks and border work.

The Provincial Border Guard Party Committee has actively innovated and effectively implemented border protection measures, firmly protected the sovereignty and security of the border and sea areas, maintained political security, social order and safety, and prevented hot spots from occurring; actively participated in consolidating political bases, developing the socio-economy of border areas, contributing to building and consolidating an increasingly strong people's border defense; performed well in border foreign affairs and people's diplomacy, contributing to maintaining and strengthening the special solidarity and friendship with the three neighboring provinces of Laos.

The political quality, level of combat readiness of officers and soldiers are increasingly improved; material and technical facilities and financial resources basically meet the requirements of the task; the material and spiritual life of officers and soldiers is gradually improved.

Mass organizations are regularly strengthened in all aspects. Party building work has many positive changes, the leadership capacity, fighting strength of Party committees and organizations, and the quality of cadres and Party members have been significantly improved.

Colonel Le Nhu Cuong - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of Nghe An Provincial Border Guard read the Political Report of the Provincial Border Guard Party Executive Committee, 10th term. Photo: Pham Bang

Frankly acknowledging the shortcomings and limitations, from the leadership and direction of the implementation of the Resolution of the 10th Provincial Border Guard Party Congress, term 2015 - 2020, the Nghe An Border Guard Party Committee has drawn 6 valuable lessons. From there, it has determined the direction, goals, tasks and leadership solutions for the term 2020 - 2025.

Specifically, focus on improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party Committee; building Nghe An Border Guard to be strong in all aspects; proactively grasp and accurately forecast the situation; advise and closely coordinate with local Party committees, authorities, and relevant forces to resolutely fight and defeat all plots and sabotage activities of the enemy and all types of subjects in all situations.

Firmly protect national sovereignty and border security, maintain political stability, social order and safety in the area under your responsibility, avoid being passive or surprised or creating hot spots; build a peaceful, friendly, cooperative and developed border. Promote the core role in building a strong all-people Border Defense and a solid all-people Border Defense posture.

The Congress listened to the Review Report of the Party Executive Committee of the Nghe An Border Guard for the 2015-2020 term, stating the advantages, frankly assessing the limitations, shortcomings and causes. Thereby, clearly defining the responsibility of the Party Committee and each individual in the Party Executive Committee to propose solutions to overcome in the coming time.

Major General Phung Quoc Tuan - Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Deputy Political Commissar of the Vietnam Border Guard, delivered a speech directing the Congress. Photo: Pham Bang

The Congress also spent time discussing the Political Report, Review Report, and Action Program to implement the Congress Resolution. Many delegates expressed their opinions on logistics development, coordination between the border guard force and the border armed forces in Laos, and the twinning of villages on both sides of the Vietnam-Laos border.

Speaking at the Congress, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province highly appreciated the spirit of solidarity, unity, efforts to overcome difficulties, grasp the situation, focus on leadership and direction to successfully implement the goals and tasks set out in the Resolution of the 10th Provincial Border Guard Party Congress.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung suggested that in the coming time, the Provincial Border Guard needs to thoroughly grasp the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws and policies on building, managing and protecting the national border; actively advise the province in implementing resolutions, documents and legal regulations on national defense, security and borders.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung gave a speech at the Congress. Photo: Pham Bang

Grasp and forecast the situation closely and accurately to advise the province on policies, countermeasures and solutions in the fight, prevention and defeat of all plots and sabotage tricks of hostile forces, reactionaries, political opportunists and all types of crimes in border and coastal areas; build, manage and firmly protect territorial sovereignty and national border security; do a good job of inspection, control, entry and exit and coordinate well in import and export work at border gates and seaports, creating a favorable and open environment for socio-economic development of the province.

Improve the effectiveness of border diplomacy; advise and coordinate to expand people-to-people diplomacy based on existing relationships; continue to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with forces of Laos, which shares a border with Nghe An province, deepen activities, and focus on improving the effectiveness of projects to help Laos.

Delegates attending the Congress. Photo: Pham Bang

Carry out well the work of building the border defense posture in the increasingly strong national defense posture and people's security posture. Promote the combined strength of the political system, all levels, sectors and the masses in building a strong border area, firmly protecting territorial sovereignty, border security and sea areas within the assigned scope.

Overview of the Congress. Photo: Pham Bang

Together, the leadership builds the Provincial Border Guard strong in politics, ideology and organization; focuses on consolidating and improving the leadership capacity, fighting strength of grassroots Party organizations and the quality of cadres and Party members; pays attention to investing and managing facilities, weapons and equipment to ensure the requirements of immediate and long-term tasks, focuses on building the Provincial Border Guard force in the direction of revolution, discipline, elite, and gradually modernization.

At the official session, the Congress elected the Party Executive Committee of the Border Guard, term XI, 2020-2025.

Delegates voted to approve the list of personnel proposals for the Party Executive Committee of the Border Guard for the 2020-2025 term. Photo: Pham Bang

The Presidium voted to elect the Party Executive Committee of the Border Guard for the 2020-2025 term. Photo: Pham Bang

Delegates vote to elect the Party Executive Committee of the Border Guard for the 2020-2025 term. Photo: Pham Bang

In the spirit of democracy and responsibility, the Congress elected 15 comrades to the Party Executive Committee of the Provincial Border Guard for the 11th term, 2020 - 2025.

On the afternoon of June 1, the Congress continued to work on important contents: The new Executive Committee held its first meeting to elect the Standing Committee, Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Inspection Committee, and Chairman of the Inspection Committee of the Nghe An Border Guard Party Committee, term XI; Elect delegates to attend the 19th Nghe An Provincial Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025; Approve the Resolution of the 11th Provincial Border Guard Party Congress and the new Border Guard Party Executive Committee introduced itself and received its tasks before the Congress.

(Nghe An Newspaper will continue to update the Congress's developments...)