Diplomacy sector must place national interests first: Prime Minister

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the diplomacy sector to put national interests first, and promote solidarity, pro-activeness, and creativity in order to successfully build and safeguard the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The Government leader made the request while addressing the emulation congress for the 2011-2015 period hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in Hanoi on October 27.

He praised collectives and individuals whose high sense of responsibility and practical actions have upheld the 70-year traditions of Vietnamese diplomacy sectors and contributed to maintaining peace, strengthening friendly relations with foreign countries, lifting the country’s position in the world arena, and facilitating national construction and defence.

He asked the diplomacy sector to grasp opportunities and overcome difficulties to protect the motherland’s independence, peace, unification, sovereignty, territorial integration, democracy, and freedom as well as to ensure human rights and civil rights in a bid to build Vietnam as a strong and developed nation.

The enormous tasks require diplomats to remain steadfast in the Party and State’s external guidelines and exert efforts to make more achievements at work, the Prime Minister stressed.

He emphasised that MOFA’s emulation movements must be closely attached to the ministry’s assigned political tasks to facilitate the national interests and the country’s construction and defence.

The emulation work must also focus on enhancing Party building and fostering the ‘Study and Follow President Ho Chi Minh’s moral examples’ campaign, he added.

At the congress, on behalf of the Party and State, PM Dung presented the Ho Chi Minh Order to the MOFA’s National Border Committee and awarded the Labour Order, first class, to Deputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

(Source: nhandan.org.vn)