President Tran Dai Quang shakes hands with officials from Military Zone 9 (Photo: VNA)While visiting poor households and policybeneficiary families in Thoai Son district in An Giang, President Quangextolled local efforts to achieve positive outcomes in various fields such asinvestment-trade-economics, agriculture and rural development, tourism, anddefense-security.
The President affirmed that the Party, State andpeople always share difficulties with underprivileged households and hope theirwill become better in the future.
He wished ethnic groups in the locality a warmand healthy Tet holiday and more accomplishments in the New Year 2017.
The State leader later visited the commemorativesite for late President Ton Duc Thang, and the provincial police and borderguards.
While visiting Military Zone 9 in Can Tho,President Quang praised officers and soldiers for taking good care of Tet forunits in border, sea and island areas.
He urged the armed forces to increase theassessment and forecast of all possible complicated situations, especially insea, island and border areas, to promptly detect and prevent all sabotage plotsand activities of hostile forces, in addition to proactively reinforcing thepeople-based national defense and tightening close relations between soldiers andpeople.
The forces must also actively improve defenseexternal work with Cambodia according to the Party and State’s foreign policieswhilst enhancing friendship and solidarity with the army and people of Cambodiato build a shared borderline of peace, friendship, stability, cooperation andcommon development, he said.-VNA
VNA
