Party Central Committee closes 7th plenum
PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE CLOSES SEVENTH PLENUM
Ha Noi, Jan. 21 (VNA) -- The Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV) Central Committee closed its seventh plenum (second phase) in Ha Noi on Tuesday after nine days of sitting.
The plenum discussed and passed four resolutions on developing the strengths of great national unity for the goal of a prosperous people, a strong country, and an equitable, democratic and civilised society; ethnic minority affairs; religious affairs; and the continued renewal of land policies and laws in the process of national industrialisation and modernisation.
It also debated and passed reports reviewing the leadership of the CPV Political Bureau and Secretariat in 2002, and decided some other important issues.
On bringing into full play national unity strengths for the goal of a prosperous people, a strong country, and an equitable, democratic and civilised society, the plenum clearly defined major viewpoints in this field. In particular, it emphasised major policies and solutions to consolidate and enhance the great national unity bloc as follows:
First, building orientations and policies with a view to enhancing the great national unity bloc (both common policies and policies towards all classes and social strata).
Second, accelerating the exercise of democracy while attaching importance to maintaining disciplines, bringing into full play the role of authorities at all levels in realising the great national unity policy, encouraging people to build a strong and pure administration and a work style of public employees "of the people, by the people and for the people".
Third, expanding and diversifying forms of rallying the people, increasing the role of the Fatherland Front and mass organisations in ensuring great national unity.
Fourth, enhancing political and ideological work, raising the citizens' responsibilities, building social consensus, and accelerating patriotic emulation movements.
Fifth, building a transparent and firm Party organisation and promoting its role in leading the national unity bloc, and further developing the role of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front in ensuring the great national unity.
Five urgent tasks have been set out for ethnic minorities work until 2010:
First, boosting poverty alleviation, raising ethnic minorities' living conditions, especially those in remote areas. Focusing on helping poor people and those ethnic groups facing extreme difficulties in addressing urgent issues: food and safe water shortage, makeshift dwelling, lack of minimum home facilities and production materials, infrastructural construction in border, remote and extremely difficult areas.
Second, continuing implement radio and television broadcasting programmes; boosting culture, information and public awareness at grassroots level, raising radio and television broadcasting programmes quality in ethnic languages; promoting the ethnic minorities' cultural values.
Third, renewing and upgrading political system quality in mountainous areas and those inhabited by ethnic minorities.
Fourth, building a people's defence and security system. Preventing security and social order "hot spots" from breaking out in those areas.
Fifth, renewing the contents and way of carrying out ethnic minorities work in the new situation.
The plenum also set out four groups of main solutions concerning the raising of public awareness, mechanism and policies, organisation and personnel, and mass mobilisation.
The plenum affirmed the Party's viewpoints on religious affairs and worked out tasks and measures to address the religious affairs in the new period. The plenum emphasised the following tasks:
First, effectively implementing policies and programmes on socio-economic development, and improving the people's material and cultural life.
Second, enhancing patriotic emulation movements, building a "good secular and religious" life among religious followers, dignitaries and monks and nuns at the grassroots level.
Third, increasing the State management of religious affairs.
Fourth, promoting religious people's patriotic spirit, thus helping them take part voluntarily in the struggle to foil all attempts of hostile forces, who abuse religious and ethnic minority issues for sabotaging the national unity bloc and acting against our political regime.
Fifth, guiding all religions in carrying out external relations in line with the Party and government's foreign policy. Continuing to raise public awareness about our government's religious policy.
Sixth, reviewing the implementation of the Party's instructions and resolutions on religious affairs, increasing basic studies, summing up practical deeds in order to help lay scientific grounds for building and implementing our line and policies towards religions for the time being and on a long-term basis as well.
The plenum also determined major measures to be taken: focusing on raising public awareness, showing uniform viewpoints, upholding the sense of responsibility of the entire political system and society towards religious affairs, increasing mass mobilisation work, building political forces at the grassroots level, promoting the State management of religious affairs, strengthening organisational work and training personnel working in the religious area.
On the continued renewal of land laws and policies in the process of national industrialisation and modernisation, the plenum agreed on the following viewpoints concerning the continued renewal of land laws and policies:
First, land is placed under the ownership of the entire people whose representative is the State, which exercises its unified management; the State allocates and leases land to organisations, households and individuals to use on a long-term stable or periodic basis in accordance with laws. The State does not recognise any claims to the re-use of land areas which were already transferred to others for utilisation in the course of carrying out the land policy.
Second, land is a special commodity, an internal strength and a huge capital resource of great value and profound political, economic and social significance to the country.
Third, land must be tapped and used for proper purposes and in an effective and economical manner; land potential must be turned to good account and investment must be made in developing land in both the area and quality.
Fourth, renewing land policies and law must conform to the Party's policy on developing our socialist-oriented market economy under the State management.
Fifth, resolutely restoring order in land use in line with the Party's political line. Increasing the Party's leadership, enhancing the role of the Fatherland Front, the Farmers' Association and other mass organisations as well as the entire people in implementing our land law and policy.
The plenum stressed the need to continue renewing land policies and laws in the process of national industrialisation and modernisation, particularly on land use regime; tasks and rights to manage the State's land; rights and obligations of organisations, households and individuals who are granted the land use right; and the construction and control of real estate market and financial policy on land.
The Party Central Committee (PCC) decided to relieve Le Hong Anh, Politburo member and Minister of Public Security, of his post as member and Director of the Party Central Committee's Inspection Commission and elected an additional six members to the PCC Inspection Commission for the 2001-05 tenure.
The PCC also elected Nguyen Van Chi, member of the CPVCC and Director of its Commission for Home Security as member and Director of the Inspection Commission. Chi was also elected as member of the PCC Secretariat.
The plenum considered and voted for the reprimand of Truong Tan Sang, Politburo member and Director of the PCC Economic Commission as he, in his capacity as Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee (6th tenure), failed to fulfil his responsibility in guiding the investigation and prevention of criminal acts by Truong Van Cam and his gang, and committed mistakes in personnel work.
