Attending the conference were: Senior Lieutenant General Le Quang Minh, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army; Lieutenant General Nguyen Trong Binh, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army.

Accordingly, implementing Decision No. 824 dated April 24, 2025 of the Prime Minister, Major General Truong Manh Dung, Commander of the 12th Corps, was appointed to the position of Commander of Military Region 1; implementing Decision No. 134 dated April 24, 2025 of the Minister of National Defense , Major General Le Xuan Thuan, Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff of Military Region 1, was appointed to the position of Commander of the 12th Corps. At the conference, Major General Truong Manh Dung handed over the position of Commander of the 12th Corps to Major General Le Xuan Thuan.

Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong speaks at the conference.
Conference delegates.

Major General Truong Manh Dung joined the Army in 1987. During his nearly 38 years of military service, he spent 32 years working and developing in the Corps, growing from the position of Platoon Leader to Corps Commander. In his working positions, he always affirmed himself as a qualified and capable officer with extensive military knowledge and scientific command methods; daring to think, daring to do, daring to take responsibility, always dedicated, responsible and close to work; having pure moral qualities, a clean and healthy lifestyle, a simple and friendly style.

In particular, from January 2022, in his position as Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Commander of the 1st Corps and from November 2023 as Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Commander of the 12th Corps; he, together with the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and the Corps Command, proposed many policies and measures to lead the Corps to successfully complete all assigned tasks, many of which were excellently completed. He has made many valuable contributions to building a "refined, compact, strong" Corps, advancing towards modernity, and has always been respected, learned from, and followed by Party committees at all levels, officers, and soldiers of the entire Corps.

Major General Truong Manh Dung spoke at the conference.

Speaking at the conference, Major General Truong Manh Dung expressed his determination to constantly cultivate, strive, and train to improve his qualifications, capacity, and experience in leadership and direction; and strive to fulfill well the responsibilities and tasks assigned by the Party, State, Army, and people.

Major General Le Xuan Thuan spoke at the conference.

At the conference, Major General Le Xuan Thuan completely agreed with the content of the report handed over before the conference. Major General Le Xuan Thuan promised to work with the Party Committee Standing Committee and the Corps Command to uphold the Party's leadership principles, unite, unite, join forces, overcome all difficulties; focus on leading and directing the building of a strong Corps, increasingly mature, ready to receive and successfully complete all assigned tasks.

Concluding the conference, Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong agreed with the handover minutes and congratulated Major General Truong Manh Dung and Major General Le Xuan Thuan on being entrusted with new tasks. Regarding Major General Le Xuan Thuan, who was appointed to the position of Commander of the 12th Corps, Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong asked Major General Le Xuan Thuan to inherit and promote the achievements of the Corps in the past; uphold the sense of responsibility, continue to take care of building solidarity and unity in the Standing Party Committee and the Corps Command; quickly approach, proactively study, grasp the situation, promptly propose policies and measures to lead the common tasks of the Corps, especially in training and combat readiness; regularity, discipline training and safety assurance work; build the 12th Corps to be truly "lean, compact, and strong". Ready to receive and complete well all assigned tasks; worthy of the trust of the Party and the people.

Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong requested Major General Truong Manh Dung (the person handing over) to thoroughly discuss the situation of the agency, unit, area, work, and experience in leading and directing the Corps to carry out the tasks assigned to Major General Le Xuan Thuan; at the same time, proactively accept new tasks according to plan.

Signing the minutes of handover of the position of Commander of the 12th Army Corps.
Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong congratulated Major General Truong Manh Dung and Major General Le Xuan Thuan.

Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong hopes that Major General Truong Manh Dung, in his position as Commander of Military Region 1, will promote his responsibilities, together with the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and the Military Region's Armed Forces, to excellently complete all tasks, especially closely coordinating with local Party committees and authorities to provide strategic advice to the Party, State, Central Military Commission, and Ministry of National Defense on military and defense tasks in the strategic areas of the Military Region and directing local military agencies to successfully organize Party congresses at all levels.

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