Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Ha Noi, July 15 (VNA) -- The sixth plenum of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee (CPVCC), ninth tenure, was closed in Ha Noi, July 15, after ten days of sitting.

The plenum today released a communique, saying that the Party Central Committee had heard, discussed and decided a number of important issues. It reviewed and arrived at conclusions regarding the continued implementation of the Party Central Committee's resolutions on orientations for developing education-training, science and technology from now to 2005 and to the year 2010; reviewed organisational and personnel work; gave guidelines on the structure of the Government (eleventh tenure); made preparations for lists of high-ranking officials of the State, the National Assembly and the Government for submission to the National Assembly; considered issues relating to the Party's inspection and discipline work; and heard reports on international affairs and other issues.

On education and training, the Party Central Committee defined three major tasks through 2010 to increase the quality and efficiency of education; broaden the scale of education on the basis of ensuring its quality and training restructuring, streamline training to meet the requirements of socio-economic development as well as that of employment, and implement social equity in education.

The Party Central Committee also defined five main solutions to renew State management in education: i.e. to build and implement a programme to "comprehensively build a contingent of teachers and educational managers"; to continue perfecting the national education system, arranging and consolidating the system of school and other educational establishments; to increase investment in education in line with the national policy of giving top priority to education; to accelerate the socialisation of education; and to develop the quantity and quality of human resources to meet the demands of national industrialisation and modernisation, construction and defence.

The Party Central Committee defined tasks to be completed from now to 2010 as follows: give timely answers to theoretical and practical issues arising from reality; renew and upgrade the technological level of the entire national economy; and build and develop key high technologies. The Committee also pointed to the need to carry out four major solutions in the domain of science-technology, namely reforming management and organisation of scientific and technological activities, forming and developing a scientific and technological market, fully tapping scientific and technological potential, and giving guidance on the implementation of key tasks in order to further boost scientific and technological development to meet the demands of national industrialisation and modernisation, national construction and defence.

The Committee affirmed that positive progress was recorded in dealing with organisational and personnel issues in the recent past. The organisation of the country's political system has been gradually reformed. The mechanism of the Party's leadership, the State's management and the people's mastery has been better materialised, meeting requirements of the national renewal, the development of a market economy, regional and international integration, and national construction and defence. The contingent of Party officials have comprehensively improved their qualifications, serving as the core force together with the people to obtain significant achievements in recent years.

However, the Committee admitted shortcomings in the area of Party building. Organisationally, the Party has failed to meet the requirements of improving its leadership and combativeness, the Committee noted. Functions and tasks of a number of State agencies and management decentralisation between ministries and local administration were not clearly defined and often hampered by cumbersome administrative procedures. State management effectiveness and efficiency were low due to the poor performance by local administrative agencies at all levels. Shortcomings were also revealed in the operation of judicial agencies. The structure and workstyle of mass organisations were reformed too slowly with a number of organisations failing to keep abreast of the people's aspiration. The quantity, the qualification and the structure of the contingent of Party officials have not yet met both long and short-term requirements and failed to meet the requirements of the period of accelerating national industrialisation and modernisation. Ethical degradation of Party officials has not been driven back while many shortcomings were revealed in handling personnel issues.

The Party Central Committee is resolved to make continued efforts to re-arrange and to clarify functions and tasks of Party and administrative agencies and mass organisations. It said efforts should be concentrated on strengthening and improving the efficiency of the system of political organisations at the grassroots level. The Committee also pointed to the need to design and conduct theoretical studies and sum up lessons and experiences during the course of handling organisational issues. The studies and experiences will serve as a basis for improving the efficiency of the country's political system in the new period.

The Committee held that continued efforts must be made to concretise and institutionalise the principle of unified Party leadership in handling personnel issues, further implement the Party resolution on Party building and rectification, push up the fight against corruption and other negative phenomena, reform personnel assessment, smoothly carry out personnel rotation so as to well prepare the younger generation for key leadership and management, posts, strengthen control over officials, and carry out basic salary reform for State employees.

In regard to the reform of the Party's leading method, the Party Central Committee pointed to the necessity to complete the leading principles of the Party Politbureau and the Party Secretariat towards the Party organisation of the National Assembly, the Party Politbureau-appointed board of the Government, the Party organisation of the Fatherland Front and mass organisations, the communique said.
It continued by saying that the Party Central Committee stressed that more efforts should be made to clearly define the responsibilities, duties, and working methods of the Party organisation of the National Assembly, the Politbureau-appointed boards of the Government, the ministries and branches, and to make clear the relations and working style of the Party Politbureau-appointed boards of the ministries and branches at the central level with the executive boards of provincial and municipal Party Organisations, as well as the working relations between the Party committees at all levels and the administration and organisations at equivalent levels.

At the event, the Party Central Committee decided to dismiss Bui Quoc Huy and Tran Mai Hanh from the Party Central Committee as well as other Party organisations. The Party Central Committee also decided to submit to the Government for consideration a proposal suggesting that Bui Quoc Huy be dismissed from the position of Vice Public Security Minister and demoted from lieutenant general to major general. In regard to Tran Mai Hanh, the Party Central Committee proposed that the Government dismiss him from the post of Director General of the Radio Voice of Viet Nam and that the Viet Nam Journalists' Association (VJA) consider dismissing him from the position of Vice President-cum-Secretary General of the VJA.

The Party Central Committee pointed out that Bui Quoc Huy had failed to fulfil his responsibilities at the time he was holding the position as Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, and had lacked a sense of responsibility in his leadership. Huy failed to take timely and firm measures against criminals, and loosened his management of his staff, thus leaving a number of his juniors degraded, with many becoming accomplices of the Nam Cam underworld ring. He lacked a sense of vigilance against crime and had close relations with bad elements for a long time, according to the communique.

In explanation of the punishment on Tran Mai Hanh, the communique said Hanh had abused his power and used the mass media to mislead public opinion through a series of false pieces of news, which in some cases had violated the Press Law - all this in an effort to have court charges brought against Truong Van Cam dropped. Hanh, it added, had been involved in close and prolonged relations with bad elements.

The Party Central Committee also discussed and gave recommendations on the National Assembly and Government structure during the 11th tenure of the National Assembly and on candidates for submission to the National Assembly to make a final decision at the coming session, the communique concluded.--Enditem