Party leader demands continued efforts to ensure peaceful, happy life for people
The Central Public Security Party Committee (CPSPC) held a conference in Hanoi on December 20 to review task performance in 2023 and outline orientations and duties for next year.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (second from left) attends the conference of the Central Public Security Party Committee in Hanoi on December 20. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Central Public Security Party Committee (CPSPC) held aconference in Hanoi on December 20 to review task performance in 2023 andoutline orientations and duties for next year.
Theevent saw the presence of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, StatePresident Vo Van Thuong, and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who are also Politburomembers and members of the CPSPC Standing Board. It was chaired by Gen. To Lam –Politburo member, Secretary of the CPSPC, and Minister of Public Security.
Participants shared the view that in 2023, the CPSPC has shown effective andcomprehensive leadership, direction, and implementation of tasks while firmlymaintaining the strategic proactiveness, peace, stability, security, and socialsafety to successfully serve the country’s socio-economic development,international integration, and national construction and safeguarding.
The CPSPC has advised the Party and State on many important policies andmeasures about political security and social order and safety. It has alsotaken many drastic measures about the Party and political system building andrectification to develop a truly clean and strong public security force, they noted.
Addressingthe conference, Party General Secretary Trong, President Thuong, and PM Chinhhighly valued efforts and achievements by the CPSPC and the Ministry of PublicSecurity this year.
Stressingsome focal tasks for the coming time, the General Secretary asked the CPSPC toactively, methodologically, and systematically consider and give advice to theParty, the State, and local Party committees and administrations about policiesand laws on socio-economic development, defence and security safeguarding, andexternal relations.
Herequested the continuation of comprehensive and fruitful implementation of thepolicies and measures for ensuring national security, sovereignty, andterritory, along with more drastic and effective efforts to carry outanti-crime solutions to guarantee a peaceful and happy life for the people.
In addition, the CPSPC needs to keep taking the lead in implementing theresolutions of the 11th and 12th Party Central Committee’sfourth meetings and Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW, issued at the fourth meeting ofthe 13th Party Central Committee, on enhancing the Party andpolitical system building and rectification, and resolutely fighting thedegradation of political thought, morality and lifestyle as well as phenomenaof “self-evolution” and “self-transformation”./.
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Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (second from left) attends the conference of the Central Public Security Party Committee in Hanoi on December 20. (Photo: VNA) 
