'Sharp sword' and 'solid shield' to protect the Fatherland and maintain social order and discipline

On September 15, the National Conference of Internal Affairs Agencies to implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress was held online, connecting 138 points in provinces and centrally-run cities; military regions, military services, arms, commands and equivalent units under the Ministry of National Defense. The conference was attended by more than 4,600 delegates representing central and local internal affairs agencies.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong chaired and delivered an important speech entitled: "Internal affairs agencies must truly be 'sharp swords' and 'solid shields' to protect the Fatherland and maintain social order and discipline."

Following is the full text of the speech by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong:

Dear leaders of the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front,

Dear delegates,

Dear all comrades attending the Conference,

Today, I am very pleased to attend the National Conference of Internal Affairs Agencies to implement the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party. I understand that this is the first time we have organized a National Conference of all Internal Affairs Agencies (or in other words, of the entire Internal Affairs sector, including 9 agencies, with an unprecedented scale and scope), and it took place right after the National Assembly successfully held its first session of the 15th tenure; the new Government held its first meeting with a very high determination; the Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations have just organized a National Conference to promote the strength of great national unity. Therefore, it is even more important, demonstrating the close and smooth coordination, the participation of the entire political system, the unanimity, and high determination of the entire Party, people, and army to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party, and the determination to turn the Resolution into reality. This is a new, systematic, scientific method and approach, with the spirit as I said:"First call, then support", "One call, hundreds respond", "Top and bottom are of one mind",and"Consistently horizontal and vertical",We will definitely overcome all difficulties and challenges and win many new victories.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, and with my personal feelings, I would like to send to the leaders, cadres, civil servants, employees, and workers of the internal affairs agencies, delegates, and comrades attending the Conference my warm greetings, sincere regards, and best wishes; wishing our Conference great success.

Dear comrades,

We all know that if a family wants to be peaceful, harmonious and happy, along with teaching and advice, there must also be rules, family traditions and customs: "Respect for the elders and yield to the younger ones", order, cannot be rude, impolite, "fish of the same school", "equal to each other"...; there must not be the type of "that family breaks the rules and the son looks down on the father, that woman is sour and the wife scolds her husband" as Tu Xuong once criticized; that is an unfortunate family. A village, a commune, a clan also has village conventions, conventions and customs; an agency, an office must have "Internal Rules"; an organization, a group must have "Regulations", "Charter"... If a country, a society wants to be good, in addition to education and advice, there must be discipline, national laws, and strict laws to protect the good and the right; To deter and punish bad, wrong, and harmful things to the people and the country, there must be management by mechanism, law, and national law. And to do that, there must be internal affairs agencies.

Internal affairs agencyare agencies operating in the field of internal affairs, such as: Procuracy, Court, Justice, Inspectorate, Audit, Police, Army, Party Inspection Committee and Party Internal Affairs Committee.; some agencies and organizations operating in the field of internal affairs or having some activities in the field of internal affairs such as:Lawyers, Lawyers; Customs, Forestry, Fisheries, Market Management agencies,... Each internal affairs agency has a very important position and role, with its own functions and tasks, but the common, overarching task of internal affairs agencies is to advise the Party and State on leadership, direction and implementation of tasks to protect the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Fatherland; protect the People, protect the Party, the State and the socialist regime; maintain national security, maintain order, discipline and social safety; prevent and combat crimes and violations of the law on security and order; protect justice, protect human rights and civil rights; protect the interests of the State, the legitimate and legal rights and interests of organizations and individuals; build a clean and strong Party and State; is the core, loyal force, the sharp "sword" and the solid "shield" to protect the Fatherland, maintain social order and discipline, protect the People, protect the Party, the State and the regime.

Dear comrades,

In recent times, especially during the 12th Party Congress, internal affairs agencies have made many efforts, made great efforts, and had high determination, achieving many very important and quite comprehensive results, leaving many outstanding marks:

Firstly, internal affairs agencies have performed well their strategic advisory functions, proposing to the Party and State many major policies and strategies on internal affairs, anti-corruption and judicial reform.In particular, it has researched and advised on the promulgation of many new, strong and drastic strategies, policies, solutions and regulations on military, national defense, and national protection; protecting national security, maintaining social order and safety; fighting against crime, inspecting, supervising, enforcing discipline, auditing, socio-economic management, preventing and combating corruption and judicial reform, etc., contributing to perfecting the institutional and legal system, tightening the discipline and order of the Party and the State apparatus, meeting the requirements and tasks of building and protecting the Fatherland in the new situation. Many regulations and resolutions have been thoroughly grasped and seriously implemented, and come into life; gradually overcoming the situation where the resolutions are correct, but the implementation is not strict or ineffective. Attach importance to theoretical research, summarizing practical experience in the field of internal affairs, law making and enforcement, thereby drawing many valuable lessons, providing theoretical and practical basis to propose to the Party and State many new policies, mechanisms, policies and solutions, especially in military, national defense, security, order, anti-corruption, law making, judicial reform, Party building and political system.

Second, to fulfill well the core role in protecting the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Fatherland, maintaining political security and social order and safety, protecting the peaceful life of the people, creating a peaceful, stable, secure and safe environment for national development.The comrades have grasped the situation, maintained the initiative, effectively advised and handled situations, promptly resolved challenges and complex changes in the world and regional security and political situation, avoiding being passive and surprised; both preventing the risk of conflict, protecting national and ethnic interests, and maintaining territorial sovereignty, borders, seas and islands, maintaining a peaceful and stable environment for national development. Timely detecting, fighting, preventing and defeating plots, sabotage activities, "peaceful evolution", and violent overthrow by hostile and reactionary forces; preventing the formation of opposition political organizations in the country; ensuring social order and security, gradually curbing the increase of all types of crimes; pioneering in preventing and fighting natural disasters, rescuing, overcoming environmental incidents, preventing and fighting epidemics, protecting people's health, lives and property... In particular, from 2020 to now, the country has witnessed many important political events, in the context of the extremely complicated and serious developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, the core role and solid shield of internal affairs agencies have been highly promoted; contributing significantly to the success of the Party Congresses at all levels and the 13th National Congress of the Party, the election of National Assembly deputies and People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 term; making efforts with the health sector, Party committees and authorities at all levels and people nationwide to push back the epidemic. The image of "Uncle Ho's soldiers", the "People's Public Security soldiers" at the forefront on all fronts continues to shine, trusted, admired and highly appreciated by the people.

Third, the work of inspection, supervision, auditing, prosecution, investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgments has been strengthened, contributing to tightening discipline and order within the Party and the State apparatus, enhancing the role, effectiveness and efficiency of the Party's leadership, the State's management and the people's mastery.The Party's inspection, supervision and discipline work has been directed resolutely, comprehensively, synchronously, effectively and efficiently; inspection and auditing work has been strengthened, focused and achieved many results. Judicial agencies have made many innovations in investigation, prosecution and trial activities; improved the quality and effectiveness of exercising the right to prosecute and supervise judicial activities; focused on innovating trial activities, improving the quality of litigation in court; reduced wrongful convictions, missed crimes and criminals; protected justice, protected the interests of the State, the legitimate and legal rights and interests of organizations and individuals, human rights, and civil rights, and strongly promoted the people's mastery. During the 12th Congress term, Party committees and inspection committees at all levels disciplined more than 1,300 Party organizations and 87,000 Party members. Through inspection and audit work, the Inspection and Audit sector has recommended the recovery and financial handling of more than 580 trillion VND and nearly 9,000 hectares of land; recommended the handling of responsibilities of more than 9,700 collectives and individuals; and transferred more than 480 cases with signs of crime to the investigation agency for handling. Prosecution agencies nationwide have discovered and initiated more than 375,000 new criminal cases; completed investigations, issued indictments, and brought to first instance trials more than 300,000 criminal cases with more than 500,000 defendants. The Court sector has also resolved and tried more than 1,800,000 civil cases and 32,000 administrative cases.

Fourth, be active, proactive, and effectively advise the Party on leadership and direction, and at the same time be the main force in detecting and handling corruption and negativity, ensuring timeliness and strictness, contributing to realizing and affirming the Party and State's determination to fight corruption, "with no forbidden zones, no exceptions, regardless of who the person is".The work of preventing and combating corruption in recent times, especially since the 12th National Congress, has been directed very vigorously and resolutely, has made strong progress, achieved many comprehensive and clear results, left a good impression, created positive effects, and spread strongly throughout society; corruption is gradually being controlled and tends to decrease, contributing to maintaining political stability, developing the economy and society, and strengthening people's trust in the Party and the State. In that general achievement, there is a very important and decisive role of internal affairs agencies - the main force, the vanguard of the Party and the State in the fight against corruption and negativity. You have both advised and directed the detection and strict and timely handling of many serious and complicated corruption and economic cases, including those that have been pending for many years and those that have occurred in sectors and fields that are of interest to public opinion and the people, such as banking, finance, land, health, education;... and proactively detected and handled corruption and negativity right in your own agencies, in accordance with the Party's viewpoint that "corruption must be fought right in agencies with anti-corruption functions", which has been agreed upon, supported and highly appreciated by public opinion and the people.

Fifth, the organization, apparatus and staff of internal affairs agencies are consolidated and improved; coordination is increasingly better, and assigned functions and tasks are well fulfilled.The organizational structure of internal affairs agencies is increasingly streamlined, effective and efficient. Cadres, soldiers and civil servants in internal affairs agencies actively practice and cultivate integrity, maintain discipline and order, take the lead in implementing the Party's policies and resolutions, the State's policies and laws, improve their working capacity, are ready to fight, sacrifice, and excellently complete all assigned tasks, making an important contribution to the country's foundation, potential, position and international prestige as it is today.

Dear comrades,

Such important achievements are due to the correct guidelines of the Party and the participation and determination of the entire political system, the consensus and support of the entire people, especially the hard work, fighting and selfless sacrifice of many generations of cadres, soldiers and civil servants of the internal affairs agencies. You comrades are the shock troops, the core; the army of strength and will to attack, ready to be present anywhere, do anything, in any circumstance when the people need, the Party assigns and always excellently complete the tasks. You comrades are a disciplined army, always loyal to the Fatherland, to the People, to the Party, protecting the People, protecting the Party, the State and the socialist regime. On behalf of the Party and State leaders, I respectfully acknowledge, commend and thank the contributions, dedication and sacrifices of the cadres, soldiers and civil servants of the internal affairs agencies. You have created a beautiful image of revolutionary cadres and soldiers in the hearts of the people, contributing to consolidating and strengthening the people's trust in the Party, State and regime.

However, in addition to the great achievements, we must admit that in the activities of internal affairs agencies in recent times, there are still some limitations and shortcomings as in the Report just presented by comrade Phan Dinh Trac. These are: The leadership capacity and fighting strength of the organization and the team of leaders are sometimes and in some places limited, lacking in determination; there is still a state of deference, avoidance, shirking of responsibility and not being proactive in handling violations and shortcomings. Although there have been many changes in self-inspection, self-detection and handling of violations within the organization, they are not strong. There are still situations of corruption, waste, negativity, degradation in political ideology, ethics and lifestyle even among those working in internal affairs; some officials have violated to the extent that they must be disciplined and criminally prosecuted, including high-ranking officials and generals in our force. In judicial activities, there are still some cases of injustice, mistakes, and omissions of criminals and criminals. The coordination between internal affairs agencies is sometimes not close and timely... These limitations and shortcomings require internal affairs agencies to seriously review and learn from experience in order to have higher determination, greater efforts and more drastic actions to overcome them in the coming time.

From the practical work and activities of internal affairs agencies in the past time, specifically the last 5 years, we have learned many valuable lessons, meaningful in both theory and practice:

One is,must ensure the absolute and comprehensive leadership and direction of the Party over internal affairs agencies in general, and maintain and strengthen the absolute and direct leadership in all aspects of the Party over the armed forces in particular. This is the decisive factor in ensuring the successful completion of all assigned tasks. Internal affairs agencies must always thoroughly grasp the Party's guidelines and leadership, maintain political orientation, be absolutely loyal to the Fatherland, the People, the Party, the State and the regime; take protecting the Fatherland, protecting the People, protecting the Party, the State and the regime, protecting justice, protecting human rights and civil rights as the top goal to implement, as their reason for living.

Second,Internal affairs agencies must constantly be closely connected with the people, thoroughly grasp the viewpoint "People are the root" in thinking and action, always identify the people as the center, the subject of the cause of innovation, construction and protection of the Fatherland; take the peaceful and happy life of the people as the goal to strive for, as the source of their joy.

Third,In internal affairs, we must always closely combine active prevention with proactive attack; in which, prevention is the main, fundamental, and long-term priority; detection, handling, and attack are breakthroughs and important; protecting the Fatherland early and from afar; promptly detecting and handling all plots and acts of violating national security; strictly and resolutely handling, without forbidden areas or exceptions, acts of law violation, crime, negativity, and corruption.

Four is,There must be solidarity, close coordination, rhythm and synchronization between internal affairs agencies with each other and with other relevant agencies and organizations in performing tasks on the basis of regulations of the Party and State; ensuring "correct roles, knowing the lesson", avoiding the situation of "drums beating one way, trumpets blowing the other", "your rights, my rights", "crabs relying on their claws, fish relying on their fins".

Five is, must regularly take care of building and perfecting the organization, apparatus and cadres doing internal affairs work, considering this a key task. Building a team of cadres doing internal affairs work with steadfastness, integrity, honesty, in-depth knowledge and skills, good expertise and professionalism, a firm grasp of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, and good moral qualities to fulfill assigned tasks; focusing on controlling power and fighting corruption, negativity, degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, "self-evolution", "self-transformation" right in these agencies. At the same time, promoting the proactiveness, dynamism, creativity and enthusiasm, dedication in performing the tasks of cadres, soldiers and civil servants of internal affairs agencies.

Dear comrades,

In the coming time, with the general goal of"Enhancing the leadership capacity, governing capacity and fighting strength of the Party; building a clean and strong Party and political system in all aspects; consolidating and enhancing people's trust in the Party, the State, the socialist regime...; building and firmly defending the Fatherland, maintaining a peaceful and stable environment; striving to make our country a developed country with a socialist orientation by the middle of the 21st century"The 13th National Party Congress affirmed and supplemented a number of major orientations for internal affairs work in the coming time:

- "Resolutely and persistently defend the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Fatherland, protect the Party, State, people and regime; maintain political security, ensure social order and safety, human security, economic security, cyber security, build an orderly, disciplined, safe and healthy society to develop the country in the right direction of socialism; proactively prevent risks of war and conflict early and from afar; detect early and promptly handle unfavorable factors, especially factors and risks that cause mutations; step up the fight to defeat all plots and sabotage activities of hostile, reactionary and political opportunist forces".

- "Build and perfect a clean, strong, streamlined, effective and efficient socialist rule-of-law state, serving the people and the country's development. Enhance publicity, transparency, accountability, and control of power, along with tightening discipline and order in the activities of the Party, the State, and of cadres, party members, civil servants, and public employees. Continue to promote the fight against corruption, waste, bureaucracy, crime, and social evils."

- "Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of inspection, supervision, party discipline and strictly control power. Step up the fight, prevent and repel corruption and waste"; "Resolutely and persistently fight to prevent and repel the degradation of political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party".

Thoroughly grasping those goals and major orientations, in the coming years, our Internal Affairs sector needs to continue to promote more strongly and better the fine traditions, great results, achievements and valuable lessons learned through the periods; strive even harder on the path of innovation, improving the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of operations in the new development stage.

In that spirit, our Conference has agreed and reached a high consensus on the directions, tasks, and key solutions for the coming time as stated in the Report, as well as the responsible and dedicated comments of many delegates. I would like to emphasize and note the following issues:

One is,Internal affairs agencies must grasp, grasp firmly and properly perform their functions and tasks; forecast the situation correctly, advise the Party and State on timely policies and solutions; have specific, strict, methodical and scientific action programs.

Internal affairs agencies have extremely important positions and roles, very important fields of operation, and are directly related to almost all aspects of social life; therefore, we must always firmly grasp and properly perform our functions, tasks and powers, must "play our roles and learn our lessons", truly understand and strictly implement principles, laws, regulations and rules, especially must be very impartial, objective and transparent; must effectively use and control the power that the Party, State and People have assigned to us.

It is necessary to proactively forecast early and correctly assess the situation; clearly identify risks and threats to national and ethnic interests, political security, social order and safety; promptly advise the Party and State on strategic policies and solutions in protecting the Fatherland, ensuring national security, social order and safety, building a clean and strong Party and political system; and not allowing "hot spots" to arise, being passive or surprised.

Regularly innovate and improve the quality of work; promote research and development of scientific and technological applications in the activities of agencies and units; assign and organize specific and scientific work; develop action programs to promptly concretize, institutionalize and realize the Party and State's policies and guidelines on internal affairs in a strict, methodical and systematic manner; avoid formalism, "movement" style, hit or miss, initially bustling, but then gradually cooling down, "head of an elephant, tail of a mouse". Focus on summarizing practices, supplementing and perfecting theories for each field of work of each internal affairs agency.

Second,Strengthen national defense and security; resolutely and persistently protect the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Fatherland; maintain political security, ensure social order and safety, build a society of order and discipline; maintain a peaceful, stable, secure and safe environment for national development.

The world and domestic situation is undergoing rapid, complex and unpredictable developments, requiring comrades to always be vigilant, alert, proactively prepare in all aspects, improve strategic forecasting capacity, maintain strategic initiative, be ready with plans to firmly protect independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and maintain national security, order and social safety in all situations. Grasp and skillfully apply the lessons of our ancestors "Building the country goes hand in hand with defending the country", "defending the country when the country is not yet in danger", have plans to prevent and eliminate the risks of war and conflict early and from afar; early detect and promptly handle unfavorable factors, especially those that can cause mutations; step up the fight to defeat all plots and sabotage activities of hostile, reactionary and opportunistic forces. Proactively and promptly handle complex and emerging issues regarding national security, social order and safety, widespread, prolonged, and complicated complaints and petitions, and respond quickly to non-traditional security threats; absolutely do not be subjective and passive or surprised.

Strengthening national defense and security potential to be able to mobilize and effectively handle emerging situations; continuing to comprehensively and synchronously implement national defense and security strategies; building and strongly promoting ""people's hearts and minds posture", "national defense posture" and "people's security posture"firmly as the foundation for the cause of defending the Fatherland. Closely and effectively combine the consolidation and enhancement of national defense and security with socio-economic development according to the motto"Socio-economic development is the central task; ensuring national defense and security is essential and constant."Building and consolidating land borders of peace, friendship, cooperation and development; enhancing the law enforcement capacity of forces on duty at borders, seas and islands.

Mobilize the combined strength of the entire political system and society to participate in preventing, fighting and combating crimes, ensuring security and order; gradually repel all types of crimes, especially crimes related to corruption, economics, drugs, environment, high-tech crimes, and gangster crimes... In the current complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to focus on implementing plans and solutions to ensure security and order, proactively prevent, detect, fight and prevent, not to let sudden and unexpected incidents occur, and not to let "hot spots" of security and order form.

Third,Further improve the quality and effectiveness of coordination and "combat coordination" between internal affairs agencies and between internal affairs agencies and all levels and sectors, ensuring close, regular, smooth, timely and effective coordination.

The task of internal affairs is extremely heavy, difficult, and complicated, involving many agencies, organizations, and individuals; it often touches on interests, touches on people, and the interests here are "group interests", they are intertwined, at all levels, in all sectors, very difficult, complicated. Therefore, it requires agencies and units in the internal affairs sector to be truly united, responsible, coordinate very closely, very smoothly and in unison with each other and with relevant agencies, organizations, and units; between the Central and local levels; between the police and the army; between the prosecution agencies; between the internal affairs and inspection of the Party with the inspection, audit of the State and the investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution agencies; between the supervision of the Party with the supervision of the National Assembly, the Fatherland Front and its member organizations to strengthen the combined strength and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the work; avoid overlap, duplication, waste of resources, and inefficiency.

But close and harmonious coordination here does not mean "peace is precious", concessions, unprincipled compromises, and mutual forgiveness of each other's mistakes, but must be closely linked to the implementation of power control between agencies, in order to ensure compliance with the law in the performance of public duties. We must be a strong collective, highly united and closely connected to each other as President Ho Chi Minh taught: "Unity is strength; revolution wins thanks to unity; resistance succeeds thanks to unity."In performing tasks, one must be exemplary, impartial, objective, courageous, and courageous, with pure motives, sincere feelings, comradeship, and brotherhood; put the interests of the nation, the people, and the interests of the people above all; when there are issues with different opinions, the agencies must sit down together to discuss, find a common voice, and reach an agreement to jointly implement them, avoiding the situation of "drums beating in one direction, trumpets blowing in the other", "your rights, my rights", "crabs relying on their claws, fish relying on their fins"; all problems must be discussed and resolved thoroughly, logically, logically, and convincingly, in the spirit of comradeship and brotherhood, in compliance with the law and regulations of the Party. If after discussion and meetings, there is still no agreement, then apply the coordination mechanism, ask for opinions from competent authorities in handling cases and incidents as we have been doing very effectively in the past by the Central Steering Committee on anti-corruption; At the same time, we must be extremely careful not to let bad, hostile forces take advantage of, incite, divide, and turn it into a complicated issue, spreading rumors that we are fighting and having internal conflicts.

Four is,Promote the work of building and perfecting institutions and laws and organizing their serious implementation, ensuring completeness, timeliness, synchronization, unity, feasibility, publicity, transparency, stability, creating new momentum for socio-economic development, rapid and sustainable national development.

We are building a socialist rule-of-law state - a state that truly creates an institutional and legal framework for the development of the country and the nation. Therefore, the legal system must be complete, timely, synchronous, unified, feasible, public, transparent, stable, ensuring the smooth operation of the state apparatus, both receiving and developing the affirmed values ​​of human civilization and being consistent with the good values ​​of Vietnamese culture, consistent with the requirements of our regime, creating new momentum for socio-economic development, rapid and sustainable national development. This is a matter of principle, very important, one of the characteristics of the socialist rule-of-law state of Vietnam. More than anyone else, internal affairs agencies must fully and deeply perceive this issue, clarify and gradually supplement and innovate both thinking and awareness in building and perfecting the legal system, especially focusing on researching and advising the Party Central Committee to issue a Resolution on the Strategy for building and perfecting the Socialist Rule of Law State of Vietnam to 2030, with a vision to 2045. At the same time, we must always be vigilant, not allowing bad and hostile forces to take advantage of us by steering our legal system in a different direction, especially in the current context of the country's increasingly deep international integration.

Along with doing a good job in building institutions and laws, organizing law enforcement is also an urgent issue today. Therefore, it is necessary to closely link law-making with law enforcement. Focus on directing strongly, investing resources and conditions reasonably to effectively perform tasks to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of law enforcement; strengthen inspection, examination, and handling of law violations; ensure the rule of law, respect for order, discipline, and order to become common standards of conduct in social life and in the activities of agencies and organizations. In particular, it is necessary to further enhance the awareness of law compliance of cadres, party members, civil servants, and public employees, overcome the situation of localism, "the king's law is weaker than the village's custom", arbitrary habits, bureaucracy, harassment, and causing trouble for people and businesses when handling work.

Comrades need to focus on consulting, inspecting, and supervising the construction, promulgation, and implementation of laws to see if they are in line with the Party's guidelines and viewpoints? Are they influenced or steered by the "freedom and democracy" plot of hostile and opposing forces? Comrades must be the "eyes and ears" of the Party, must "guard the goal" for the Party in this field, and not allow anyone to go against the Party's Platform, viewpoints, policies, and guidelines. At the same time, we must proactively strengthen guidance, monitoring, urging, inspecting, and supervising Party committees and organizations at all levels in implementing the Party's guidelines and resolutions, and the State's policies and laws on internal affairs.

Internal affairs activities, including judicial activities, must have the responsibility to protect justice, protect human rights, civil rights, protect the socialist regime, protect the interests of the State, and the legitimate and legal rights and interests of organizations and individuals. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on building a professional, modern, fair, strict, honest, and serving-the-Fatherland and-the-people Vietnamese judiciary. Continue to innovate the organization, improve the quality, effectiveness, efficiency and prestige of the people's courts, people's procuracies, investigation agencies, enforcement agencies and agencies and organizations participating in the judicial proceedings; promptly and lawfully resolve all types of disputes and complaints according to the law; effectively prevent and combat criminal activities and law violations, prevent wrongful convictions, and avoid letting criminals and criminals escape; strengthen control over judicial power. Improve the quality of public services in the fields of judicial administration, judicial support, and legal aid; enhance the capacity to resolve international disputes.

Five is,Further enhance the role, responsibility and operational efficiency of internal affairs agencies, resolutely and persistently fight to prevent and repel corruption and negativity, without forbidden areas, without exceptions, and without being influenced by any organization or individual.

Corruption remains one of the threats to the survival of our Party and regime. Therefore, we must continue to step up the fight against corruption and negativity. Closely combine active prevention with proactive detection, strict and timely handling of corrupt and negative acts; synchronously handle party discipline, administrative discipline and criminal law against violators, regardless of who they are. We must thoroughly grasp and implement the motto of prevention and early resolution, not allowing small violations to accumulate into major violations, treating diseases immediately, not allowing diseases to become disasters; we must ""cut off a few wormy branches to save the whole tree"as Uncle Ho taught. It is necessary to combine the fight against corruption with the fight against negativity, prevent and push back the degradation of political ideology, morality and lifestyle. At the same time, it is necessary to do a good job of propaganda and education, creating a high level of self-awareness and unity of will and action among cadres, party members and people in preventing and fighting corruption and negativity, first of all, the exemplary and resolute role of the heads of Party committees, agencies, organizations, units and localities; persistently educate and practice integrity, build a culture of thrift, no corruption, no waste, first of all among cadres, party members, civil servants and public employees.

Resolutely, regularly, comprehensively and synchronously deploy the work of inspection, supervision, auditing, investigation, prosecution, trial, execution of judgments, early detection and strict handling of corruption and negative cases; at the same time, do a good job of receiving citizens, resolving complaints and denunciations; resolutely recover corrupt assets; promptly handle and replace leaders and managers when there are signs of corruption and negative acts; strictly handle officials who harass, extort, and cause trouble for people and businesses. Gradually expand the scope of anti-corruption to the non-state sector; expand and improve the effectiveness of international cooperation in anti-corruption.

Sixth,respect the People, be closely attached to the People, learn from the People, wholeheartedly serve the People, be subject to the supervision of the People; promote the great strength of the People in the cause of defending the Fatherland, maintaining security and order, preventing and combating corruption and negativity.

In all work, we must always thoroughly understand President Ho Chi Minh's viewpoints."people are the root", "must be close to people, help people, learn from people"; truly believe in, respect and promote the people's right to mastery, persistently implement the motto"people know, people discuss, people do, people check, people supervise, people benefit".Internal affairs agencies must always uphold the spirit of serving the people, create the most favorable conditions to resolve people's work requests; strengthen close relations with the people, know how to listen to people's opinions, rely on people,"Ten times easier without people, ten thousand times harder with people, it can be done."We must resolutely eliminate indifference and apathy towards the people's grievances; resolutely eliminate all acts of abusing and taking advantage of power to infringe upon the people's legitimate and legal interests. Whatever is beneficial to our people, we must do our utmost to do it; whatever is harmful to our people, we must avoid. We must love and respect the people so that the people will love and respect us.

Comrades must always remember that our Army is the People's Army, the Police is the People's Police, the Procuracy is the People's Procuracy, the Court is the People's Court, the Party leads, the State manages, the People are the masters,... which means we are all servants of the People, from the People, serving the People. Therefore, we must always stick close to the People, put the People's interests first and foremost; anything that the People do not agree with, even hate, or oppose, we must avoid, must resolutely prevent; even anyone who violates must be punished.

Seven is, continue to improve the organizational structure and build a team of cadres with sufficient qualities, capacity, prestige, serving the Fatherland, serving the people and the development of the country.

Continue to improve the organization, reduce the number of focal points, eliminate intermediate levels, streamline the payroll, ensure integrity, transparency, and improve the capacity and efficiency of internal affairs agencies. Develop and perfect regulations and rules to effectively prevent any negative and unclear impacts on the operations of these agencies. Controlling power and practicing integrity to prevent and combat corruption and negativity must first be carried out effectively within internal affairs agencies.

Focus on building a contingent of cadres with adequate qualities, capacity, qualifications, prestige, serving the people and the development of the country; strengthen discipline; reform salaries, regimes, and policies on treatment, create a working environment and conditions; encourage and protect cadres who dare to think, dare to speak, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, dare to innovate, dare to face difficulties and challenges, and be resolute in their actions for the common good. At the same time, there must be a mechanism to screen and promptly replace those who do not fulfill their duties, violate the law, public ethics, professional ethics, are disciplined, and no longer have prestige among the people. Synchronously implement solutions to build a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and gradually modern People's Army and People's Public Security, with a number of military branches, arms, and forces advancing straight to modernity.By 2025, basically build a strong, compact and elite Army and Police, creating a solid foundation, striving to build an elite and modern Army and Police by 2030.Build a strong reserve force and a strong militia and self-defense force, widespread in all regions. Focus on training judicial and judicial support staff, innovate the selection and appointment mechanism for judicial positions in the spirit of judicial reform; strengthen the material base for militia and self-defense forces and commune-level police to promptly resolve complex security and order issues from the beginning and at the grassroots level.

Internal affairs work must constantly face challenges and negativity in society and sensitive environments, making people very susceptible to bribery, corruption, and "intoxication". Therefore, cadres, soldiers, and civil servants of internal affairs agencies, more than anyone else, must be very vigilant, alert, and constantly cultivate and train their political qualities, moral qualities, working style, and lifestyle; must have the courage to protect what is right and fight for integrity; and especially, must be honest and clean, know how to set an example, respect integrity, not accept any impure pressure, any temptation, or bribery; be truly impartial, objective, "serve the public and follow the law", be impartial and selfless; must be "Bao Cong" in the new era.One must have a heart filled with revolutionary enthusiasm, ready to act for the country and the people; have a head full of courage and intelligence to overcome any difficulty and defeat any enemy; have strong legs and clean hands to stand firm, stand straight and reject all trivial temptations, and maintain the honor of an internal affairs officer.. In all circumstances, we must always put the interests of the nation, the people and the people first and foremost; we must always be pioneers, take the lead, be ready to fight and sacrifice for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland, for the happiness of the people with the spirit of"Forget yourself for the country, serve the people"; absolutely loyal to the Fatherland, the People, the Party, the State and the regime,"As long as the Party exists, we exist", worthy of being called the sharp "sword", the solid steel "shield" of the Party, the State and the people. This requires each cadre, soldier and civil servant of the internal affairs agency to regularly train and hone themselves so that the "sword" is always strong and sharp, daring to swing the sword and swing the sword at the right time, cutting the right target, without being damaged; so that the "shield" is always steadfast and solid, no bullet or arrow can penetrate it, especially "sugar-coated" bullets and arrows.

At the same time, we must resolutely rectify and fight to eliminate the mindset of retreating, working "moderately", "defensively", "covering up", and maintaining "safety" among a certain group of cadres and civil servants, especially leaders and managers of internal affairs agencies at all levels. I have said this many times, and now I would like to repeat it:Those who have this mindset should put it aside and let others do it! We only live once, so we must live meaningfully, so that we don't have to feel regret for mean, despicable, shameless actions; what's the point of having so much money, we can't take it with us when we die. Honor is the most sacred and noble thing!

Internal affairs is a very important field but also extremely difficult, complicated and sensitive. I request that Party committees and organizations at all levels pay attention to leading and directing the improvement of the organization, apparatus and staff of the Internal Affairs sector, creating all favorable conditions for the Internal Affairs sector to better and more effectively fulfill its responsibilities in the face of new requirements of the new period.

Dear comrades,

I sincerely hope that, after this Conference, our internal affairs work will have a new, strong, substantial and effective change, marking a new milestone on our development path and only then will this Conference have practical significance. I believe that with the tradition of solidarity and high sense of responsibility, the internal affairs agencies will effectively implement the Action Program to implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, continue to strongly innovate the organization and methods of operation, achieve many important results, make greater contributions to the innovation process, promote industrialization and modernization, bring our beloved country to develop rapidly and sustainably, step by step transitioning to socialism, worthy of its position and role as the core, main force, and vanguard force in protecting the Fatherland, protecting the People, protecting the Party, the State and the socialist regime;effectively implement all policies and guidelines of the Party, turning the policies and guidelines of the Party and the laws of the State into vivid reality., bringing true prosperity, freedom and happiness to the people, bringing glory to the Nation and the Race, creating a great and invincible strength to build our Fatherland to be increasingly prosperous, our People to be increasingly happy; our Country to be increasingly developed and prosperous.

Sincere thanks to the entire Conference and comrades!