PM calls for combined strengths to combat terrorism
(VOV) - The ministries, agencies and localities should continue promoting the combined strength of the entire political system to fight terrorism, maintain political stability and ensure social order and safety.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made the statement at a meeting in Hanoi on November 22 to review the five-year implementation of a Prime Ministerial decree on terrorism prevention.
The meeting heard a report on the implementation of the PM’s Decree issued in 2007 for the 2007-2012 period presented by Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant. Gen. To Lam, head of the ministry’s Steering Anti-Terrorism Committee.
Speaking at the event, Dung praised anti-terrorism achievements recorded by ministries, agencies and localities, as well as feats made by the armed forces, in particular the People’s Police and the People’s Army in the five-year fight. He said that they have thwarted all hostile forces’ terrorist and sabotage schemes, and activities targeting the Vietnamese revolutionary cause.
He also pointed out advantages, risks and challenges to the fight against terrorism in particular, and the national construction and defence in the coming time.
PM Dung asked the ministries, agencies and localities to thoroughly grasp and properly implement the decree, considering it a central task closely connected to their entrusted political duties.
They should grasp the situation, actively prevent and thwart all terrorist and sabotage schemes and activities by hostile forces and other criminals. They should be ready to deal with threats while building a specialized force that can cope with all possibilities, he added.
The Government leader asked the ministries, agencies and localities to popularise and educate patriotism, national consciousness, responsibilities and obligations to protect national security, and help people understand the major challenges to national defence in the new situation, such as terrorism, sabotage and political riots.
He said that relevant agencies should pay attention to preventing e-criminals that use information technology and the Internet to sabotage the State and instigate turbulence.