President Truong Tan Sang presented decisions on promoting three high-level officials of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) to the Senior Lieutenant General ranking at a ceremony held in Hanoi on December 11.

 

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President Truong Tan Sang and the three newly-promoted officials


 

The three promoted officials are Deputy Ministers of Defence Be Xuan Truong and Vo Trong Viet and Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the VPA Vo Van Tuan.

Addressing the ceremony, President Sang extended congratulations to the promoted officials, saying that it was also an honour to the army, their families and homelands.

He reminded the officials on future challenging tasks in the national defence and construction and asked them to continue promoting their capacity and loyalty to the nation to serve people.

The president assigned the officials to work with the Party Committee and leaders of the army to realise effectively Party resolutions to strengthen the army.

On behalf of the promoted officials, Viet promised to strive and dedicate further to implement all assigned tasks, realise the President’s requests and work to respond to the trust by the Pary, the State, the army and people.

Nhan Dan