Attending the ceremony were Senior Lieutenant General Le Huy Vinh, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of National Defense ; Senior Lieutenant General Phung Si Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army.

Along with the announcement of Decision No. 2626/QD-BQP dated June 10, 2025 of the Minister of National Defense on reorganizing the Department of Legal Affairs into the Department of Legal Affairs under the Ministry of National Defense and restructuring the legal organization of agencies under the Ministry of National Defense, the Organizing Committee also announced the Decision to establish the Party Committee of the Department of Legal Affairs; awarding the Quyet Thang Military Flag to the Department of Legal Affairs; awarding decisions on the transfer and appointment of officers of the Department of Legal Affairs. Accordingly, Colonel Nguyen Viet Dung, Director of the Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of National Defense, was appointed as Director of the Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of National Defense.

Senior Lieutenant General Le Huy Vinh presents the Quyet Thang Military Flag to the Legal Department.
Senior Lieutenant General Phung Si Tan presented the decision on the transfer and appointment of officials of the Legal Department.

The Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of National Defense was established on September 25, 1976 under the Decision of the Minister of National Defense to advise and assist the Central Military Commission and the Minister of National Defense in leading, directing, commanding, and managing the State by law in the military and defense fields. Over nearly 50 years of construction and development, the Department of Legal Affairs has always been united, unified, proactive, creative, and has excellently completed its tasks of advising and proposing to help the Minister of National Defense in managing the State by law in the military and defense fields. At the same time, organizing research, developing, and promulgating legal documents... has so far ensured a basically synchronous and unified system of laws on military and defense; making an important contribution to the cause of building the Army, consolidating national defense, and building and protecting the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Senior Lieutenant General Le Huy Vinh and Senior Lieutenant General Phung Si Tan took a photo with comrades in the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Legal Department.

Praising and commending the achievements, progress and growth of the Legal Department, the Ministry of National Defense and the Military Legal Sector in recent years, Senior Lieutenant General Le Huy Vinh affirmed that the reorganization of the Legal Department into the Legal Department under the Ministry of National Defense is an important event, a step to concretize Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW dated November 9, 2022 of the 13th Party Central Committee on continuing to build and perfect the socialist rule-of-law state of Vietnam in the new period; Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW dated April 30, 2025 of the Politburo on innovating the work of building and enforcing laws to meet the requirements of national development in the new era.

Faced with the increasingly high demands of building a socialist rule-of-law state in Vietnam, the Deputy Minister of National Defense requested the Legal Department to urgently stabilize the organization and staffing, maintain solidarity, promote traditions, closely follow the requirements of tasks and assign specific tasks to each organization and individual to fulfill the assigned responsibilities, especially the requirement of innovating the work of building and enforcing laws to meet the requirements of national development in the new era; advocate building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and gradually modern People's Army, with a number of military branches, arms, and forces advancing straight to modernity. By 2025, the Army will basically be built to be elite, compact, and strong, creating a solid foundation, striving to build a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and modern People's Army by 2030.

Delegates attended the ceremony announcing the decision to reorganize the Legal Department into the Legal Department under the Ministry of National Defense.
Scene of the ceremony announcing the decision to reorganize the Legal Department into the Legal Department under the Ministry of National Defense.

Over the past years, the Department of Legal Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense and the People's Army Newspaper have closely coordinated, bringing about many practical results in implementing Project 1371 on "Promoting the role of the People's Army in participating in the dissemination and education of law, mobilizing people to comply with the law at the grassroots level in the period of 2021-2027". Thereby, many good practices in disseminating and educating the law for officers and soldiers; mobilizing people to comply with the law at the grassroots level have been widely spread. In particular, the People's Army Newspaper and the Department of Legal Affairs also compiled and published the book "Law and Life" for agencies, units, officers and soldiers to refer to and apply in the process of implementing Project 1371; Seminar "Diversifying forms of propaganda and mobilizing people to comply with the law" at the Military Command of Vinh Phuc province, Border Guard of An Giang province; The online contest "Learning legal knowledge on the People's Army Newspaper" attracts tens of thousands of people, officers and soldiers of units to participate each time.

DUC TUAN

    Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/quoc-phong-an-ninh/tin-tuc/to-chuc-lai-vu-phap-che-thanh-cuc-phap-che-832994