Dear Comrade Truong Thi Mai, Politburo member, Permanent member of the Secretariat, Head of the Central Organization Commission;

Dear Politburo members, former Politburo members; Party Central Committee Secretaries; Party Committee members,

Party Central Committee, former member of the Party Central Committee;

Dear all comrades!

Today, I am very happy and excited to join the Standing Member of the Secretariat, Politburo members; Party Central Committee Secretaries; Party Central Committee members to attend the ceremony to award the 45-year Party membership badge to General Luong Cuong, Politburo member, Standing Member of the Central Military Commission, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army. This is not only an honor and pride for General Luong Cuong personally to be awarded the Party badge, but also an honor and pride for all Party members in the Army Party Committee and officers and soldiers of the entire army.

On behalf of the Central Military Commission and the leaders of the Ministry of National Defense, I warmly congratulate General Luong Cuong on his honor of receiving the 45-year Party membership badge - a noble award bestowed by the Party; wish the leaders of the Party, the State, the Central Military Commission, the leaders of the Ministry of National Defense and all comrades good health, happiness, success, and to continue to contribute more efforts and intelligence to the revolutionary cause of the Party, the State and the Army.

General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense.

Dear all comrades!

Comrade General Luong Cuong was born in Viet Tri, Phu Tho - the sacred ancestral land of the nation, in a family with a rich revolutionary tradition; his father was an Army officer, participating in the resistance war against the French colonialists. He was a cadre who developed from a soldier, trained and matured in combat. He received basic training at the Political Academy, the National Defense Academy; experienced many working positions, matured from the grassroots, Secretary of the Regiment Party Committee; Deputy Director of the Personnel Department; Political Commissar of Army Corps 2; Political Commissar of Military Region 3; Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army; Member of the Party Central Committee from the 11th to the 13th terms; Secretary of the Party Central Committee, 12th term; Member of the Politburo, 13th term.

During his 45 years in the Party, General Luong Cuong has always been absolutely loyal to the Party, the Fatherland, and the people. In all circumstances, he has always promoted organization and discipline, upheld principles, had a decisive, cautious, objective, impartial, frank, sincere, close-knit, grassroots working style, respected and listened to the opinions of comrades, teammates, superiors, and subordinates, and promoted collective intelligence in leadership and direction.

With sincere feelings and high responsibility, he always wholeheartedly helped, nurtured, and imparted knowledge and experience in leadership, direction, command, and management to his subordinates; always demonstrated the mettle and intelligence of a staunch communist, a cadre, and a general of the Army; steadfast in Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh Thought, the goal of national independence and socialism; constantly studied, cultivated, trained, preserved, promoted, and shone with the qualities of Uncle Ho's soldiers, pure revolutionary ethics, pioneering spirit, and exemplary behavior, and successfully completed all assigned tasks. He made many great and important contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation and the growth and maturity of the heroic Vietnam People's Army.

As a member of the Secretariat and Politburo, he has done a good job of advising and proposing to the Party and the State in planning military and defense policies; leading and directing the building of all-people national defense and the building of the people's armed forces; proposing policies, countermeasures and measures to handle complex and sensitive situations related to defense and security. As a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army, Director of the Central Military Commission's Inspection Committee, with his capacity and extensive experience in the work process, he has worked with the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, the Central Military Commission, the leaders of the Ministry of National Defense, and the leaders of the General Department of Politics of the People's Army to unite, unify, thoroughly grasp and strictly implement the leadership of the Party and the management and administration of the State; effectively directing the implementation of Party and political work, building a politically strong Army; Building a strong Party organization in the Army in terms of politics, ideology, ethics, organization and cadres; maintaining the Party's absolute direct leadership in all aspects over the Army; with a serious and resolute attitude, he proposed many solutions to lead and direct the fight to prevent and repel signs of degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, "self-evolution", "self-transformation"; preventing and combating "peaceful evolution"; contributing to internal cleansing, building and firmly consolidating political and spiritual factors so that the entire army can excellently complete all tasks, meeting the requirements of the cause of building and firmly defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

The 45-year Party membership badge - the noble award presented to General Luong Cuong today shows the deep concern, trust, recognition and appreciation of the Party, State, Central Military Commission and Ministry of National Defense for his contributions to the cause of Party building, the cause of building, fighting and growing our Army.

Dear comrades!

To continue promoting the nature and revolutionary traditions of the Party, successfully completing the tasks of building the Army, consolidating national defense, building and protecting the Fatherland in the new revolutionary period, I request that all cadres and soldiers of the entire army, and first of all cadres, party members and the masses in the General Department of Politics of the People's Army, continue to thoroughly grasp, grasp, concretize and successfully implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, resolutions and directives of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense; focus on building Party committees and Party organizations at all levels; especially strong and clean grassroots Party organizations, associated with comprehensively strong agencies and units that are "exemplary and typical"; promote the Emulation Movement to Win, promote the good nature of Uncle Ho's soldiers; strive, cultivate, train, and truly be exemplary in political mettle, steadfast, steadfast, and absolutely loyal to the Party's revolutionary cause.

Together with the entire Party and people, actively study, practice and effectively implement the Resolution of the 4th Central Committee of the 11th and 12th tenures, Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW of the 13th tenure on Party building and rectification and the political system, in conjunction with the implementation of Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW dated May 18, 2021 of the Politburo on continuing to implement Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo on promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle; Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW dated June 16, 2022 of the Party Central Committee on strengthening, consolidating and building grassroots party organizations and improving the quality of party members in the new period; strengthen solidarity, maintain strict discipline, improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of party organizations and cadres and party members, to meet the requirements and tasks in new conditions and circumstances; resolutely fight to protect the Party's guidelines and viewpoints, oppose all erroneous and hostile viewpoints; be ready to receive and successfully complete all assigned tasks.

Once again, I wish Comrade General Luong Cuong good health, happiness and success in his positions and responsibilities; continue to promote the good nature of Uncle Ho's soldiers, a communist party member, and contribute much effort and intelligence to the revolutionary cause of the Party, State, people and Army.

Wishing the Standing Secretary of the Secretariat, distinguished delegates, and all comrades good health, happiness, and success.

Thank you very much!

(*) Headline of People's Army Newspaper