It is necessary to end the activities of the 3 Steering Committees in the current phase.

Ending the operations of the 3 Steering Committees in the current period is necessary. This is also one of the goals of building a streamlined administrative apparatus and unifying focal points for effective and efficient operations.

Closing the 6th Central Conference, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized the need to prioritize the immediate implementation of tasks that are clear, mature and highly agreed upon, including ending the operations of the three Steering Committees for the Northwest, Central Highlands and Southwest. Thus, after 13-15 years of establishment with the task of directing, guiding, supervising and urging the provinces in the region and neighboring areas to carry out the tasks of the Party and State on socio-economic development, security and defense... the Steering Committees have completed their tasks and ended their operations.

The establishment of the three Steering Committees for the Northwest, Central Highlands and Southwest was based on practical requirements. On July 17, 2002, the Politburo (9th tenure) issued Decision No. 46 on the establishment of the Central Highlands Steering Committee in the context that the Central Highlands was facing many complex and difficult issues. The Central Highlands Steering Committee has become the focal point for monitoring, grasping the situation, promptly reporting and proposing to the Central Committee many important issues, especially the work of ensuring political security, fighting and resolving the FULRO issue, and preventing protests and riots.

The Central Highlands Steering Committee is also responsible for researching and proposing mechanisms, policies and solutions to promote production, improve the lives of ethnic minorities, promote hunger eradication and poverty reduction, and make proposals and recommendations to bring religious activities into order.

Over the past 13 years, the Northwest and Southwest Steering Committees have contributed to creating changes in economic and social development, gradually improving people's lives, and narrowing the gap between rich and poor between regions. Many emerging issues have been detected, handled, and resolved promptly, especially hot issues. Not only grasping the situation, the Steering Committees also analyzed limitations and shortcomings and had solutions for implementation such as focusing on applying science and technology, building the political system, restructuring agriculture towards sustainability... The implementation of linkages in directing economic development has had positive and proactive changes in each region, focusing on regional planning, implementing linkages in tourism development, developing agriculture, forestry, and fisheries associated with processing and consumption of products.

According to Associate Professor, Doctor Doan Minh Huan, Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Magazine, the three Steering Committees of the Northwest, Central Highlands and Southwest were formed in the historical process, stemming from specific and special requirements, to ensure political security and social safety arising in the regions. During their existence, the Steering Committees have made great contributions, helping to ensure the socio-economic development situation in all three strategic regions: Northwest, Central Highlands, and Southwest. Up to now, the Steering Committees have completed their historical missions and completed their tasks.

Associate Professor, Doctor Doan Minh Huan pointed out that in history, during the resistance wars against France and the US, the Party also established structures similar to the Steering Committees for the Northwest, Central Highlands and Southwest. After completing their tasks, those structures also ended. Normally, researchers call this a “dynamic” structure, not a stable structure in all periods. It is established when it has a task, and can end when it has finished its task.

Recently, in an interview with the press, Mr. Tran Quoc Huy - former member of the Party Central Committee, former Deputy Head of the Central Organization Committee, affirmed: The biggest task of the 3 Committees when they were established was to stabilize regional political security. At that time, it was mandatory to have a Steering Committee, but after 3-5 years, if the need no longer exists, it should be terminated.

Agreeing with this view, Mr. Bui Duc Phien, former Head of the Inspection Committee, Transport Union 2, Ministry of Transport said: “The most important thing is the quality of the activities of those Steering Committees. However, during their operation, these Committees have not had any outstanding activities. The problem now is to arrange staff. Good staff need to be given the conditions to develop.”

At the recent 6th Central Conference, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong pointed out that priority should be given to immediately implementing tasks that are clear, mature and highly agreed upon, including ending the activities of the 3 Steering Committees: Northwest, Central Highlands and Southwest. From the actual coordination of activities, Mr. Tu Xuan Son, Vice Chairman of the Fatherland Front Committee of Binh Duong province, said: “The role of the Steering Committees in these 3 regions cannot replace the leadership of the Secretariat and the Politburo towards local Party committees.

The local Party Committee reports to ask for opinions from the Central Committee, while the Steering Committees are just advisory bodies. So, looking at the whole picture, our Party and State apparatus is still cumbersome. If we review the entire political system, we must look at it thoroughly from top to bottom.”

Thus, according to the "dynamic" structure, when there is a task, it is established, and when the task is over, the role can be terminated. The termination of the activities of the 3 Steering Committees in the current period is necessary, this is also one of the goals of the Party and State in building a streamlined administrative apparatus, unifying focal points for effective and efficient operations./.

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