CPV- The Fourth National Party congress in 12/1976
THE FOURTH NATIONAL PARTY CONGRESS: VIET NAM WORKERS' PARTY RENAMED COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIET NAM
Ha Noi, April 13 (VNA) -- The Fourth National Party Congress decided to rename the Viet Nam Workers' Party the Communist Party of Viet Nam.
The fourth Congress was held in Ha Noi from Dec. 14-20, 1976 at a time when the Vietnamese people overcame trials and won glorious victory. Viet Nam was reunified and the Viet Nam Revolution entered a new era that of independence and reunification on the way of carrying out the strategy of socialist revolution.
The Congress drew 1,008 delegates representing more than 1.55 million Party members from Party committees of 38 cities and provinces and central agencies, and 29 delegations from other Communist Parties, Workers' Parties and international organizations.
Comrade Le Duan, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, presented a political report to the Congress.
The Congress reviewed major lessons from the resistance war against U.S. aggression, for national salvation. It was a congress of national reunification, taking the country to socialism.
The Congress renamed the Viet Nam Workers' Party the Communist Party of Viet Nam and passed a new Party Statute including 11 chapters and 59 articles.
The Congress decided to use the title General Secretary instead of First Secretary.
It elected a Party Central Committee with 101 full and 32 alternate members and a Political Bureau with 14 full and three alternate members. Comrade Le Duan was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam.
The Party Central Committee's meetings from the fourth Congress to the fifth Congress were held on December 20, 1976; in late June-early July 1977; January 1978; July 1978; December 1978; August 1979; March 1980; September 1980; December 1980; October 1981; December 1981; and March 1982.--VNA
