Ninth national party congress to be held in mid-april
HANOI - The ninth national congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam will begin on
April 19, 2001.
The date was announced by the Party Central Committee at the end of its 11th plenum, second phase,
today, March 24.
Following is the full text of the announcement by the Central Committee, Eighth Congress, 11th Plenum.
The 11th plenum, second phase, of the Communist Party of Viet Nam's Central Committee was held in Ha
Noi from March 13-24, 2001 to continue with the work of its first-phase meeting.
Advisors Do Muoi, Le Duc Anh and Vo Van Kiet attended.
Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu delivered the opening and closing speeches.
The 11th plenum, second phase, continued to review and finalize all documents and prepare for the
introduction of personnel to the Party Central Committee of the coming ninth National Party Congress. The
plenum has focused with wisdom and high responsibility before the Party and the nation and by democratic
discussion has closed with success.
1. The plenum of the Party Central Committee continued to discuss comments and suggestions made by
various Party organizations, veteran revolutionaries, scientific organizations and people from all walks of life to
finalize all documents to be submitted to the ninth Party Congress, including the Politial Report, the
Socio-economic Development Strategy for 2001-2005 period and the Report for Revised Party Statutes.
In implementing the 11th plenum's resolution, which coincided with the Party's founding anniversary on
Feb.3, 2001, the Party Political Bureau allowed the mass media to publish the revised draft Politial Report for
public comment.
A month after the announcement, people from all walks of life were engaged in stirring discussions to
contribute their ideas and comments to the draft Political Report in a widespread drive of political activity.
Millions of letters were sent to the Office of the Party Central Committee, relevant Party organizations and
the mass media as people of all strata, at home and overseas, contributed their opinions ranging from political
viewpoints to major orientations to each word and sentence of the Draft.
Thousands of comments and ideas about different aspects have been openly published and transmitted by
the mass media. The Central Committee is deeply moved at the sentiment of the people to the Party and the
country, and expresses its deep gratitude towards the people's feelings reserved for the Party.
The Party Central Committee has re-affirmed its determination to carry out the Platform for national
construction in the period of transition toward socialism adopted at the seventh National Party Congress by
accepting reasonable and rational contributions to all ten major issues in the draft Political Report.
Wholehearted comments and opinions about concrete measures will be considered in the course of
implementing resolutions of the Congress.
The public is continuously contributing to the draft Political Report. The Central Committee will continue to
hear and discuss public comment and ideas and will finalize the draft Political Report at its coming 12th
plenum before presentation to the ninth National Party Congress.
2. The Party Central Committee has the task of preparing guidelines, orientations and personnel for the
coming National Congress to choose and elect personnel to the new Party Central Committee according to
the organizational regulations. The 11th plenum, second phase, continued considering and introducing the
best candidates representing the Party's will and wisdom and meeting the criteria of political firmness, ethical
standards and sense of responsibility for the people and with the capabilities to lead and organize
implementation of Party's guidelines, with the focus on quality and qualification, while ensuring inheritance,
continuity and renewal, - not only for implementation of resolutions of the ninth Party Congress - but in
preparation for following Party congresses.
It is an absolute not to introduce to the highest leading body of the Party anyone who is unqualified, lacks
political firmness, is opportunistic, bureaucratic, corrupt, greedy and ambitious, undisciplined, divisive,
inefficient or is irresponsible towards the people.
3. The plenum conducted serious self-criticism and criticism about the responsibilities of the Party Central
Committee and its members based on the implementation of a drive to build and strengthen the Party in the
spirit of the resolution of the sixth Party Central Committee's plenum, second phase. Within its authority, it
disciplined with warnings for personal irresponsibility Doan Van Kien, member of the Party Central
Committee, General-Director of the Viet Nam Coal Corporation; Hoang Duc Nghi, member of the Party Central
Committee, Cabinet Minister, Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas; and
Ha Quang Du, member of the Party Central Committee, Cabinet Minister, and Chairman of the Committee for
Physical Training and Sport; and reprimanded for managerial irresponsibility Pham Van Tra, Politburo member
of the Party Central Committee and Minister of Defence; and Le Van Dung, member of the Party Central
Committee and Chief of the General Staff of the Viet Nam People's Army.
4. The Party Central Committee decided to convene the ninth national Party congress that will begin on
April 19, 2001.
The ninth Congress will be that of wisdom, democracy, unity and renewal. The Party Central Committee
calls on the entire Party, army and people to strive for successful implementation of the country's political
tasks, increase national unity; broaden democracy; accelerate discipline; firmly preserve political stability;
promote socio-economic development; ensure national security and defence; and enhance the glorious
tradition of the Party and the nation, thus contributing to the success of the ninth National Party congress,
the first in the new century and millennium.
Vietnam News Agency - March 24, 2001.
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