Lieutenant General Thai Dai Ngoc, member of the Party Central Committee and Commander of Military Region 5 chaired the conference. Attending the conference were comrades in the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Command of Military Region 5; leaders of Party committees and authorities of the central coastal provinces in the area...

Conference overview.

The central report and the opinions expressed at the conference emphasized that the Militia and Self-Defense Force is a new type, with new tasks, and performs tasks in a large area. Closely following reality, agencies, units, and localities have thoroughly grasped and implemented closely and synchronously solutions to build forces, organize, manage, and command, ensuring that all aspects of the Force's initial operations have good quality. Notably, as soon as the Ministry of National Defense's plan and instructions from the competent authorities were available, the Party Committee and the Military Region Command identified tasks, policies, and solutions to lead and direct the effective implementation of the Project.

At the conference, delegates also focused on analyzing and clarifying the advantages, difficulties, and obstacles, pointing out the causes and making recommendations to improve the quality of project implementation.

Lieutenant General Thai Dai Ngoc, Commander of Military Region 5, delivered a concluding speech at the conference.

Concluding the conference, highly appreciating the outstanding results of agencies, units and localities in implementing the Project in the past time, Lieutenant General Thai Dai Ngoc emphasized that the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and the Military Region 5 Command identified this as a key political task, a new task of high specificity, concretizing the viewpoints of our Party and State on "Protecting the Fatherland early, from afar", "Protecting the country when the country is not yet in danger". To continue implementing the Project in the next phase with quality and effectiveness, Lieutenant General Thai Dai Ngoc requested agencies and units to continue to thoroughly grasp and strictly implement the viewpoints and policies of the Party, State, Central Military Commission, and Ministry of National Defense in performing the task of protecting sovereignty over seas and islands; closely following reality, proactively coordinating with local Party committees and authorities, all levels and sectors to comprehensively review the results of the Project implementation; Propose to supplement and adjust solutions, implement them synchronously, consistently and legally, contributing to firmly protecting the sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland in the new situation.

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