On the afternoon of March 1, in Hanoi, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the announcement ceremony of the National Assembly's Resolution on the establishment of the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions and decisions on personnel work at the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions.
General Secretary To Lam, President Luong Cuong, and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man sent flower baskets to congratulate the conference.
Also attending the conference were: Politburo member, Party Central Committee Secretary, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien; Politburo member, Minister of National Defense, General Phan Van Giang; Party Central Committee member, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung; Party Central Committee members, leaders of ministries, branches, agencies of the Party Central Committee, National Assembly, Government, Vietnam Fatherland Front; leaders of a number of provinces and centrally run cities; representatives of ethnic groups and religious organizations.
At the 9th extraordinary session, the National Assembly passed Resolution No. 176/2025/QH15 on the organizational structure of the Government for the 15th National Assembly, in which the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions is one of 17 ministries and ministerial-level agencies in the organizational structure of the Government. The National Assembly also approved the appointment of Mr. Dao Ngoc Dung as Minister of Ethnic Minorities and Religions.
The Government has issued Decree No. 41/2025/ND-CP stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions; The Prime Minister has issued decisions appointing Deputy Ministers of the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions, including Mr. and Mrs. Y Vinh Tor, Y Thong, Nong Thi Ha and Nguyen Hai Trung.
Based on practical foundations and the implementation of Resolution 18-NQ/TW of the Central Committee, the establishment of the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions must ensure conformity with management practices; the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws on functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of state administrative agencies; on streamlining payrolls, restructuring the staff, civil servants and public employees; ensuring a streamlined apparatus, operating effectively, efficiently and effectively to meet the requirements and tasks in the new period.
Speaking at the event, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh congratulated the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions on its first establishment; and emphasized the greater significance of the Party and State's attention to ethnic and religious affairs to both promote movements and activities and effectively manage the state in the field of religion and ethnicity, further promoting the contributions of ethnic groups and religions to the revolutionary cause, construction and protection of the country of the Party, State and people.
On this occasion, the Prime Minister also acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts and contributions of Comrade Pham Thi Thanh Tra (Minister of Home Affairs) and Comrade Hau A Lenh (Secretary of Ha Giang Provincial Party Committee, former Minister, Chairman of the Ethnic Committee) in leading agencies performing state management functions in the field of religion and ethnicity in recent times.
The Prime Minister also congratulated Comrade Dao Ngoc Dung on completing his duties as Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and now being assigned the duties of Minister of Ethnic Minorities and Religions. At the same time, the Prime Minister sincerely thanked the attention and coordination of agencies in the political system with the Government in performing the task of state management of ethnic minorities and religions.
According to the Prime Minister, our country has 54 ethnic groups, each with its own cultural identity, creating a unified and diverse Vietnamese culture. The Prime Minister emphasized that the most important thing is the spirit of great national solidarity of the Party, State and people, comradeship and compatriotism, which has been promoted in all periods and stages of the revolution and has achieved great victories as President Ho Chi Minh summarized: Solidarity, solidarity, great solidarity/Success, success, great success.
Similarly, we also strongly promote solidarity among religions, religions linking religion with life, life with religion in the spirit of "religion and nation". With great solidarity, including solidarity among ethnic groups and religions, we have together overcome all difficulties and challenges, contributing to the achievements since the Party's founding and the country's founding.
The Prime Minister emphasized that in the new situation, the mainstay of our country is still the spirit of great national unity, national love, and compatriotism, which need to continue to be promoted to the highest level to carry out the noble and heavy political tasks assigned by the Party, State and people in building and protecting the country in the new period.
The Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions to continue to thoroughly grasp and implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws on ethnic and religious affairs, and to perform well the functions, tasks and powers as prescribed, paying attention to a number of contents.
Accordingly, regarding ethnic work, the Prime Minister emphasized the spirit of ethnic solidarity, ethnic groups must have equal access; how to ensure that there is no gap between ethnic groups in development; not to leave anyone behind; not to let hostile and reactionary forces divide the national solidarity bloc.
Informing that the Politburo has just decided to exempt tuition fees for all students from kindergarten to high school nationwide, the Prime Minister expressed his concerns about schools for students and medical treatment for people in remote areas, ethnic minority areas, and border and island areas. The head of the Government requested the Minister of Ethnic Minorities and Religions and the Minister of Education and Training to urgently develop a project nationwide this year so that students can have boarding schools without having to "go far, without having to walk dozens of kilometers to go to school", and at the same time take care of their food and accommodation. The source of funding for this work comes from increased revenue and savings on unnecessary regular expenses. Along with that, the Minister of Health is developing a project to upgrade and improve grassroots healthcare nationwide with the motto of caring for and protecting people's health and lives first and foremost.
According to the Prime Minister, the principle is that wherever there are students, there are teachers, wherever there are patients, there are doctors, but it must be practical, reasonable and effective. The important thing is to cover and meet the needs of the people but not mechanically, not "1 student, 1 teacher, 1 patient, 1 doctor".
Along with that, it is necessary to promote the cultural identity of ethnic groups, turn ethnic cultures into development resources, serve the country, both meet the cultural enjoyment needs of the people and turn culture into material wealth; including implementing the national target program on culture, developing cultural industry, entertainment industry...
Regarding religious affairs, the Prime Minister emphasized very key issues such as the need to ensure freedom of belief and religion, closely combine religion and life, life and religion, religion is closely linked to the nation; institutionalize and effectively implement state management, management for development, implementation of the Party's guidelines, State policies, and people's aspirations; at the same time, the material and spiritual life of religious people is increasingly improved along with the country's development with the spirit of leaving no one behind.
Along with that, religious organizations and healthy religious activities, associated with the development of the country, promote domestic solidarity, international solidarity, enhance the role of religion in society, in international activities such as the VESAK Buddha's birthday, contribute to the progressive and civilized development of mankind.
At the same time, hostile and reactionary forces must not be allowed to incite religious issues and cause division among religions. The Prime Minister also noted the task of deploying satellite internet to cover the internet, promoting digital transformation in remote, border, island and ethnic minority areas.
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions to develop a project to submit to competent authorities to contribute to the development of equality, healthiness and civilization in religions.
The Prime Minister also requested the Minister and the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions to immediately get to work, without interruption, especially work related to the people, ethnic minority and religious affairs, actively contributing to political stability, social order and safety, national development, and promoting GDP growth of 8% or more.
The Prime Minister noted that the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions must promote and be a model of solidarity, unity and spread solidarity and unity; cadres must be closer to the grassroots, go to the grassroots more, go to remote areas, border and island areas, do better in information and propaganda work, create motivation and inspiration for equal development and leave no one behind.
On behalf of the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions, Minister Dao Ngoc Dung respectfully thanked the Party and State for their attention when deciding to establish the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions; committed to accepting the Prime Minister's instructions at the ceremony; the collective leadership and affiliated units of the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions continue to uphold the spirit of solidarity, unity, dedication, and devotion, doing their best to best perform all tasks assigned by the Party, State, Government, National Assembly and people.
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