Nghe An Province and Military Region 4 Command agreed on the content of the provincial defense area exercise in 2021.

Party Central Committee members: Lieutenant General Nguyen Doan Anh - Commander of Military Region 4; Thai Thanh Quy - Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee co-chaired the meeting.

Attending the meeting, on behalf of the Military Region 4 Command, there were Lieutenant General Tran Vo Dung - Party Committee Secretary, Political Commissar of the Military Region, and comrades in the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and the Military Region Command.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Xuan Son - Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; a number of comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, leaders of a number of relevant departments and branches.

Overview of the working session between the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee of Nghe An province and the Military Region 4 Command. Photo: Thanh Duy

SELECTING NGHE AN AS THE DRILLING LOCATION OF MILITARY REGION 4

In 2021, Nghe An province was assigned by the Military Region 4 Command to organize a defense zone exercise. Up to this point, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the leaders of the People's Committee of Nghe An province have fully and deeply grasped the Military Region Commander's Exercise Directive; leaders of agencies, units and localities have proactively deployed the contents as planned, ensuring quality and synchronization, especially the standing agency of the Provincial Military Command has proactively and actively done a good job of advising and deploying preparations for the defense zone exercise.

Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Ha - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Commander of the Provincial Military Command presented a report on preparations for the Nghe An province defense area exercise in 2021. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Provincial Defense Zone Exercise Steering Committee held its first meeting to disseminate and implement the Provincial Defense Zone Exercise Directive of the Military Region Commander and assign tasks to members of the Steering Committee, while also deploying exercise preparation work for departments, branches and 5 districts.

The Provincial Military Command has coordinated with departments and branches to survey and agree on plans to adjust and supplement the construction of items in the exercise command center.

Currently, Nghe An has also conducted a preliminary survey of provincial-level military drill locations; compiled and estimated facilities, budget, and forces and means to participate in the drill; and initially coordinated with units under the Military Region to participate in the drill with Nghe An province.

Lieutenant General Tran Vo Dung - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of Military Region 4 spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Standing Office of the Provincial Defense Area Exercise Steering Committee is closely following the Military Region agencies to prepare documents and provide guidance on the exercise content and scenarios.

At the meeting, comrades in the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and the Military Region 4 Command emphasized a number of contents related to the preparation work for the successful implementation of the Nghe An province defense zone exercise in 2021. In particular, the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and the Military Region 4 Command determined to take the defense zone exercise of Nghe An province this year as a model exercise for the provinces in the Military Region.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung expressed his agreement with the contents of the exercise and requested Military Region 4 to continue to pay attention and support the province in developing the exercise scenario. In addition, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that the scenario must anticipate the complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic to proactively prepare plans.

IMPORTANT POLITICAL TASKS

Speaking at the meeting, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy expressed his high agreement with the policy, content, time and method of conducting the exercise; at the same time, affirmed that this is one of the key and important tasks of the province in 2021.

Therefore, the province has deployed tasks related to the defense area exercise with a very proactive attitude; at the same time, it has taken full advantage of the agencies of Military Region 4 to help the province, as well as organized meetings of the 3 forces: Military, Police, Border Guard to prepare for assignment for the exercise; and prepared conditions for organizing the exercise.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee pledged to the Commanders, Political Commissars of Military Region 4 and the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Command of Military Region 4 that Nghe An province will focus highly, prepare early and best possible to make the 2021 Nghe An province defense area exercise a success, worthy of being selected as a model exercise province.

Besides, the head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee also hopes that Military Region 4 will pay close attention to helping guide the province to prepare well, grasp the issues and situations deeply to manage clearly and decisively.

At the meeting, Lieutenant General Nguyen Doan Anh - Commander of Military Region 4 highly appreciated the attention and responsibility of all levels, sectors, especially key officials of the province in performing military and defense tasks of the province, especially in important areas of defense and security.

The Commander of Military Region 4 also shared with the provincial leaders that 2021 is the first year of the term to implement the resolutions of the Party Congresses at all levels, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has greatly affected the implementation of the set goals and targets. However, through understanding and analyzing the situation, Military Region 4 has chosen Nghe An as the first province to conduct the defense zone exercise.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Doan Anh suggested that the province should identify this as an important political task this year; through which all levels and sectors of the province should closely coordinate with the armed forces of Military Region 4 to successfully complete the exercise task and truly be a model unit.

With the above characteristics, the Commander of Military Region 4 suggested that Nghe An province continue to pay attention to directing all levels, sectors, especially cadres in charge at all levels to promote the role and awareness of military - defense work in general, and the task of practicing the provincial defense zone in particular; continue to thoroughly implement the resolutions and directives of the Central and Government on the defense zone in all levels and sectors.

The province also needs to focus on leading the Party Committee, government and armed forces to successfully complete the tasks of the 2021 defense zone exercise; at the same time, direct the preparation of documents for the exercise of the forces, especially the three blocs: Party, government, and armed forces of the province; along with that, organize good training for the forces participating in the exercise.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Doan Anh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Commander of Military Region 4 delivered a concluding speech at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Lieutenant General Nguyen Doan Anh also requested the province to fully direct the forces, means, facilities, and finances for each exercise content, especially the live-fire exercise content. During the implementation of the task, the provincial agencies need to closely coordinate with the agencies of the Military Region to fully prepare the content of the documents they are responsible for; and perform well the work of keeping the exercise documents confidential.

The Commander of Military Region 4 requested the Military Region agencies to closely coordinate with the agencies of Nghe An province; clearly assign tasks to each comrade to work with the province to complete documents and papers related to the defense zone exercise; and determine the practical exercise and training content suitable for each bloc: Party, government, armed forces.

Emphasizing that the provincial defense area drill is to raise the vigilance of all levels and sectors, and at the same time raise awareness for key officials at all levels to strengthen and consolidate national defense - security and protect the Fatherland early and from afar, Lieutenant General Nguyen Doan Anh emphasized: The Military Region identifies it as the Military Region's task, so it always stands side by side with the province to complete political tasks.