>Brass Ho Chi Minh statues presented > >The Army’s Party Committee, the Defence Ministry held a presentation ceremony >of brass Ho Chi Minh statues to ministries, branches, sectors and >organisations at the central level in Hanoi on December 14. > >Politburo member and director of the Vietnam People’s Army General Department >of Politics, Senior Lieutenant General Pham Thanh Ngan addressed the ceremony, >highlighting that on the 110th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh and >in line with the aspiration of officers and men of the Vietnam People’s Army, >the Army’s Party Committee, the Defence Ministry has cast brass Ho Chi Minh >statues to present them to ministries, sectors, branches and provinces >nationwide. This is a work of deep political and ideological significance, of >spiritual value and long lasting with time. This also expressed the >remembrance and deep gratitude of the entire Party and people to Uncle Ho. **** >PM praises Youth Union for its activities > >Prime Minister Phan Van Khai praised the Youth Union Central Committee for >their effective organisation of activities this year, the Young People’s Year. > >He affirmed that through these practical and useful activities, the Youth >Union’s movements have been developed with the higher number of the >outstanding Youth Union’s members admitted to the Party than the previous >years. > >Working with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee on the >result of the work in the Young People’s Year 2000 in Hanoi on December 14, >Prime Minister Khai asked the Youth Union Central Committee to map out more >suitable and effective measures of education and training, thus being able to >meet the demand of the new period. One of the most important task, he said, >was to educate revolutionary ideal, tradition and virtue for the youth, making >each young person always proud of the Vietnam Communist Party and the nation’s >glorious tradition. He added that the youth should also have a thorough grasp >and mastery of the scientific and technological advance. With these >conditions, the young people could shoulder the heavy responsibility to >successfully build socialism and fulfil the national industrialisation and >modernisation. The prime minister also asked the Youth Union to co-ordinate >with concerned agencies to resolutely push back social evils, especially drug >issues among young people, build a cultural life for young people, >contributing to creating a healthy social environment. > >Mr Vu Trong Kim, first secretary of the Youth Union Central Committee informed >the prime minister about the deployment and implementation of the programmes >and targets set in the Young People’s Year for young people nationwide. These >programmes include young people’s volunteer movements to help the poor and the >mountainous and remote areas, their participation in the construction of Ho >Chi Minh Highway. Although, the movements have brought fruitful results in >many fields, many problems are still unresolved. **** >Consultative Group meeting for Vietnam opens > > > >Deputy PM Nguyen Tan Dung addressing the meeting. > >The Consultative Group (CG) for Vietnam opened its meeting in Hanoi on >December 14. >Participants at the two-day meeting include Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan >Dung, and representatives of the World Bank (WB), 41 bilateral and >multilateral donor organisations and nations, and many observers. > >This year's CG Meeting is the eighth of its kind since Vietnam resumed its >relationship with the international donor community in 1993. It is an >opportunity for the donor community and the Vietnamese Government to assess >and exchange views on Vietnam's socio-economic development in the past year >and development plans for the coming time. Donors' policies and views will be >presented to the participants. > >Discussions at the meeting will focus on an economic framework and an >institute for rapid and sustainable development in Vietnam until 2010, >development of human resources, infrastructure, rural and environmental >development, partnership relations in the coming decade, and official >development assistance (ODA) demands and commitments. > >In recent years, ODA to Vietnam has risen each year despite a fall in ODA >around the world. In the last seven years, the world community has pledged ODA >worth US $15.4 billion. In the 1996-2000 period alone, Vietnam disbursed more >than US $6 billion to develop its socio-economic infrastructure and implement >its poverty alleviation and hunger elimination programme. > >Addressing the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said that >Vietnam has devised a five-year plan (2001-2005) and a socio-economic >development strategy for the coming decade, and was determined to continue >accelerating economic renovation and realising national industrialisation and >modernisation in a bid to avoid being left behind in the regional and global >development process. > >He asked the meeting to spend proper time discussing Vietnam's socio-economic >development strategy for the next decade (2001-2010), and its five-year plan >(2001-2005). (VNA) > **** >Lao Supreme People's Assembly chairman to visit Vietnam > >A high-ranking delegation from the Lao Supreme People's Assembly, led by >Chairman Samane Vignaketh and his wife, will soon make an official friendship >visit to Vietnam. >A communique issued in Hanoi on December 14, by the Vietnam National Assembly >Office says that the visit will be made at the invitation of National Assembly >Chairman Nong Duc Manh. (VNA) **** > >Vietnam congratulates US president-elect > >Vietnam congratulated US President-elect George Bush and hoped that its >relations with the United States would continue to be improved and developed >on the basis of mutual understanding and respect, equality and mutual benefit, >said Foreign Ministry spokesperson on December 14. >The spokesman was responding to Vietnamese and foreign journalists who sought >Vietnam's reaction to the outcome of the US presidential elections. **** >Congratulations sent to re-elected >leaders of Hungarian and Portuguese parties > >Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu has sent a message of >congratulations to Kovacs Laszlo following the latter's re-election as >President of the Hungarian Socialist Party (HSP). >A similar message went to Carlos Carval following his re-election as Secretary >General of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). > >Mr Laszlo was re-elected at the Seventh HSP Congress and Mr Carval at the 16th >PCP Congress. (VNA) **** >Yellow snails damage 19,000 hectares of rice > >The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said yellow snails >developed in many areas due to high level of water. > >Yellow snails damaged about 19,000 hectares of rice in Ho Chi Minh City, Vinh >Long, Tay Ninh and Phu Yen provinces. > >Three other provinces in the Mekong River delta were also infected with yellow >snails on an area of about 17,000 hectares, six thousand hectares more than >the same period last year. It is forecasted that the spreading of yellow >snails in the coming days is very fast. MARD has warned provinces to take >active measures to destroy yellow snails. > >All villages in Tien Giang province in the Mekong River delta have been >infected with yellow snails. The provincial pest control sub-department has >urged farmers to collect and destroy yellow snails to minimise losses. **** >Torrential rain hit HCM City in dry season > >A long and heavy downpour accompanied by lightning and thunders hit Ho Chi >Minh City yesterday afternoon, flooding many streets. > >It is quite a rare downpour to hit the city at this time of the year. > >Rainwater flooded many streets and blocked traffic for hours as the drainage >system in the city failed to force rainwater out. _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics. 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