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All peoplešs national security protection movement reviewed A meeting was held yesterday in Ho Chi Minh City to review ten years of implementation of a joint resolution on Strengthening the All Peoplešs National Security Protection Movement in the New Period.š The meeting was held by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFFCC) and the Ministry of Public Security. According to the report, over the past decade, the all peoplešs national security protection movement has been launched widely, attracting the participation of a great deal of people. The police provides the people with regular information on the policies and laws of the Party and State, and on the peaceful evolution scheme of hostile forces, on crimes and social evils so that the peoplešs vigilance will be heightened. All localities have set up the council for security and order protection which show good performance. Bright examples have been noted and multiplied on a large scale. Addressing the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem praised the efforts by branches, sectors and ministries of all levels in implementing the joint resolution over the past ten years, combining the patriotic movement and the For National Securityš movements with many others, thus contributing to stabilising political security for national economic development. He stressed that national security protection is the cause of the whole people in which the police is the core force. Closing the meeting, Lieutenant General Le Minh Huong, Politburo member and minister of public security emphasised that the great success of the movement was that the Fatherland Front and the Ministry of Public Security knew how to rely on the people and brought into full play the general strength of the great national unity. Seven provinces and cities received certificates of commendations for their outstanding accomplishments in national security protection movement. Present at the meeting were Nguyen Minh Triet, Politburo member and secretary of Ho Chi Minh Cityšs Party Committee; Pham Gia Khiem, member of the Party Central Committee and deputy prime minister; Tran Van Dang, secretary general of the VFFCC; leaders of the fatherland fronts and public security from 61 provinces and cities. **** Activities to celebrate New Year in Hanoi Many cultural and sports activities will be held in Hanoi on the evening of December 30 and 31 and January 1, 2002 to celebrate the New Year. Art performances will be held in the open air at the Ba Kieu temple, the Indira Ghandi public garden near Hoan Kiem lake, Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc square, Lenin memorial and Van Dien town. Armyšs art troupes will give free performances in the suburban districts to serve the local people. A special song, dance and music programme, with the participation of famous artists, will take place at the August Revolution Square on December 31. **** US $4.7 million for population programmes in poor communes in 2002 An investment of VND 70 billion (US $4.7 million) will be channelled to reproductive health care and family planning programmes in almost 8,000 poor communes across the country in 2002. The figure was released at a meeting held in southern Binh Thuan province on December 26 to mark the Vietnam Population Day (December 26). According to Tran Thi Trung Chien, minister and chairwoman of the National Population and Family Planning Committee, the population growth rates in mountainous and remote rural communities are 1.7-1.9 times higher than the national average. Raising the management capacity of population workers and officials from the central to the grassroots levels, boosting the dissemination of information and education on reproductive health care and family planning; promoting reproductive health care, and combining population control efforts with hunger and poverty reduction activities are immediate purposes of population action plans in poor communes. The number of people in the reproductive age group using contraceptive measures in remote areas is equal to just 60% of the national average and only 42% of pregnant women have access to maternity care at child birth. Up to 70.6% of women have reproductive health problems, Minister Chien added. The population service will boost co-ordination with other socio-economic sectors to soon stabilise the country's population and raise its human development index so as to meet requirements of national industrialisation and modernisation. Vietnam is striving to register a replacement or zero growth rate by 2005. (VNA) **** Vietnam to train 550 Lao students The education ministers of Vietnam and Laos signed a co-operation agreement on education in Hanoi on December 26, under which 550 Lao students will come to study and conduct research in Vietnam. Also under the accord, 25 Vietnamese students will have chances to study in Laos. In addition, Vietnam will continue providing textbooks and compiling Vietnam-Laos and vice versa dictionaries for Laos at the latter's request. Vietnam also committed to build for Laos a school for gifted students and would-be university students of ethnic groups, and two nationalities-boarding schools. The funding will come from the non-refundable aid committed by the Vietnamese government to the Lao government. In return, Laos pledges to apply an equal educational policy for both Vietnamese nationals in Laos and Lao students, and create favourable conditions for Overseas Vietnamese students to study in their nativeland. The two sides also raised support to twinned provinces and cities in helping each other in personnel training through the local or individual funding in line with the co-operation agreement signed by the two governments. Vietnamese teachers will also be sent to work at Vietnamese schools in Laos, according to the accord. The co-operation agreement was reached during an on-going working visit to Vietnam from December 25 by a delegation of the Lao Education Ministry led by its minister Phimmasone Luongkhamma. After the signing ceremony, the Lao guests were received by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. He highly valued the delegation's visit outcome culminating in the two ministries' 2002 co-operation programme. Deputy PM Nguyen Tan Dung (right) receives Lao Minister Phimmasone Luongkhamma. Their last year co-operation programme was reviewed as a great success. Vietnam is now home to 781 Lao students while 98 of its children are studying in Laos. The training of the Vietnamese and English languages, information technology, and business management for Lao students and officials have become well organised and proved efficient, said the deputy prime minister. He, however, wanted the programme to have a better record next year, suggesting it focus on quality so as to catch up with the world progress. (VNA) **** Vietsovpetro fulfils yearly plan five days ahead of schedule The Vietnam-Russia Oil and Gas Joint Venture Enterprise (Vietsovpetro) fulfilled this year's plan on December 26, five days ahead of schedule, by tapping 13.1 million tonnes of crude oil. Vietsovpetro also obtained a turnover of US $2,632 million this year, US $523 million more than planned. Earlier, on December 19, the enterprise brought the 1.65 billionth cubic metre of gas ashore. It contributed US $1,537 million to the State budget, US $274 million more than its yearly plan. (VNA) _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
