Nghe An province summarizes national defense and security work in 2021

On the afternoon of December 30, the Provincial People's Committee held an online conference to review national defense and security work in 2021 and deploy tasks for 2022.

Comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Major General Pham The Tung - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Provincial Police Department;Lieutenant Colonel Phan Dai Nghia - Commander of the Provincial Military Command;ColonelNguyen Cong Luc - Commander of the Provincial Border Guard CommandCo-chair of the Conference.

Attending the conference wereColonel Pham Van Dung - Deputy Chief of Staff of Military Region 4 and leaders of departments, branches and localities in the whole province.

Panorama of the conference at the Nghe An Provincial Police bridge. Photo: Pham Bang

MANY OUTSTANDING RESULTS

In 2021, the world and regional situation has many complicated developments. In the province, the prolonged and unpredictable developments of the Covid-19 pandemic have greatly affected all aspects of social life. In the face of the above situation, the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, and People's Committee have focused on leading and directing the drastic and synchronous implementation of measures, successfully achieving the "dual" goal. In particular, the field of national defense and security continues to achieve many outstanding results.

All levels and sectors have focused on leading and directing the effective implementation of major policies and tasks on national defense and security; All levels, agencies, businesses and people have agreed, united, made efforts and resolutely implemented measures to prevent and combat the Covid-19 pandemic, contributing to social stability and ensuring national defense and security.

Major General Pham The Tung - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Provincial Police Department opened the Conference. Photo: Pham Bang

All levels and sectors have also directed the promotion of mass mobilization and education on national defense and security; building and strengthening core forces at the grassroots level, contributing to consolidating national defense, associated with people's security and solid national border defense.

Synchronously and drastically deploy many measures to protect national security, ensure social order and safety; strengthen administrative management of social order and safety. Continue to firmly protect national sovereignty, ensure security in border areas, seas and islands. Direct the promotion of training and drills on plans and complex situations regarding national defense, security, defense areas and flood and storm prevention and control, rescue and relief.

Foreign affairs and cooperation with neighboring provinces of Laos in the fields of defense and security continue to be implemented more stably and effectively. At the same time, attention is paid to building a regular, elite, and strong armed force, ensuring adequate facilities, logistics, and technology; and implementing well the rear policy of the armed forces.

Lieutenant Colonel Phan Dai Nghia - Commander of the Provincial Military Command spoke at the Conference. Photo: Pham Bang

It is forecasted that in 2022, a number of issues affecting national security and defense will continue to arise domestically and in the province, in which the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to develop complicatedly. On that basis, the conference agreed on 10 key tasks in 2022 with the aim of firmly ensuring national defense and security, ensuring social order and safety, thereby creating a premise for implementing the tasks of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and developing the economy and society in the province.

The conference also heard 5 presentations from 5 units and localities. The presentations clarified the achievements, lessons learned and difficulties in the implementation of defense and security tasks in 2021, and proposed key solutions and tasks in 2022.

ALWAYS TAKE THE ACTIVE POSITION IN EVERY SITUATION

Concluding the Conference, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that in 2021, the general situation of the country as well as the province faced many difficulties and challenges, especially the Covid-19 pandemic which greatly affected people's lives as well as production and business activities.

However, with the participation of the entire political system, the leadership and direction of the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Council, Party committees at all levels, the government, the participation of the armed forces, the consensus and support of businesses and people, the implementation of the tasks of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security, building the Party and the political system has achieved many positive results. Social order and safety have been maintained, in which national defense and security work has achieved many outstanding results.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee concluded the Conference. Photo: Pham Bang

In particular, all levels and sectors regularly monitor and grasp the situation, proactively, promptly and flexibly resolve and handle situations related to national defense and security, avoiding being passive and surprised in any situation. In 2021, the province ensured security and order in organizing the 13th National Party Congress and the election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 term.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also pointed out some limitations in national defense and security work, such as: The work of grasping and forecasting the situation in some areas, some routes, and fields is sometimes not timely; State management work in some sensitive fields is not consistent; population management work, especially when the number of citizens returning to their hometowns to avoid the epidemic is large, is sometimes not strict.

Emphasizing that Nghe An is identified as a key area where hostile and reactionary forces conduct sabotage activities, the situation on the border and many other areas has potential factors of instability, natural disasters, floods, complicated epidemics... directly affecting the tasks of socio-economic development, national defense and security, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that with the requirements and tasks of national defense and security set out in 2022 being extremely heavy, requiring all levels, sectors, especially the armed forces to make efforts and determination to carry out the tasks.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to 8 collectives with outstanding achievements in national defense and security work in 2021. Photo: Pham Bang

On that basis, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested all levels, sectors, especially the armed forces, to clearly define the goals, requirements, and tasks of national defense and security in 2022, based on the characteristics of the local situation, in any situation, they must maintain a proactive position, grasp the situation forecast, propose effective policies, solutions, and strategies to comprehensively and closely direct the tasks of national defense and security work.

Implement close coordination between national defense and security with socio-economic development, especially investment attraction and project implementation in key strategic areas. Focus resources on preventing and combating the Covid-19 pandemic in accordance with the spirit of Resolution No. 128 of the Government: Safely and flexibly adapt and effectively control the Covid-19 pandemic.

The head of the Provincial People's Committee also requested all levels, sectors and armed forces to organize defense zone drills, combined with anti-terrorism drills in 2022 to achieve good results, ensuring absolute safety. Focus on the task of recruiting citizens to join the army to meet the quota, ensuring quality. Improve the effectiveness of state management of national defense and security, especially sensitive areas, not to create loopholes for bad elements to exploit to sabotage.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to individuals with outstanding achievements in national defense and security work in 2021. Photo: Pham Bang

In addition, focus on ensuring security and order, suppressing all types of crimes and social evils, especially before, during and after the Lunar New Year 2022. Resolutely do not allow gangsterism, the use of weapons, crimes disguised as businesses, transnational crimes, and effectively fight high-tech crimes. Promote the movement of all people to protect national security, consolidate the national defense, associated with the people's security posture and the people's border defense.

Continue to maintain foreign cooperation relations with the Party committees, authorities, and armed forces of the border provinces with Laos. Continue to pay attention to investing in building a regular, elite, and modern provincial armed force to meet the national defense and security tasks in the new situation.

On this occasion, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to 8 collectives and 8 individuals with outstanding achievements in national defense and security work in 2021./.