In the joyful and excited atmosphere of the entire Party, people and army competing to welcome the Party congresses at all levels, towards the 14th National Congress of the Party, from September 29, 2025 to October 2, 2025, the 12th Military Party Congress was solemnly held in Hanoi and was a great success.

The Congress was honored to welcome Comrade To Lam, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam , Secretary of the Central Military Commission, leaders and former leaders of the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front; leaders and former leaders of the Central Military Commission, Ministry of National Defense; leaders of central departments, ministries and branches, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; 450 delegates, representing the mettle, intelligence, belief and will of more than 270,000 party members in the Party Committee of the Army to attend the Congress.

General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission; Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and delegates attending the congress. Photo: VIET TRUNG

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, Comrade To Lam, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, spoke to acknowledge and highly appreciate the outstanding achievements and results in leading the implementation of military and defense tasks, and Party building for the 2020-2025 term; at the same time, directed and oriented the key contents that the Party Committee of the Army and the entire army need to thoroughly grasp and implement in the 2025-2030 term; building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, modern People's Army, acting as the core together with the entire people to firmly protect the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam, maintain and consolidate a peaceful and stable environment to build and develop a rich, prosperous, civilized, happy country, firmly advancing towards socialism.

With the motto "Solidarity - Democracy - Discipline - Steadfastness - Breakthrough - Development", the Congress expressed high consensus and contributed many important opinions to the Draft documents of the 13th Central Executive Committee to be submitted to the 14th National Party Congress; approved the Political Report of the Central Military Commission to be submitted to the 12th National Party Congress of the Army, selected and elected 45 official delegates, along with 16 ex-officio delegates, representing the Army Party to attend the 14th National Party Congress.

The Congress affirmed that in the past term, under the leadership of the Party, the management and administration of the State; the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense and Party committees and commanders at all levels have led and directed the entire army to unite, be proactive, creative, overcome difficulties, and comprehensively complete 15 key tasks set out in the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress of the Army. Many tasks were completed excellently, leaving outstanding marks, especially in adjusting the organization of forces, training, combat readiness, international integration and defense diplomacy, and developing the defense industry; taking the lead in preventing, combating, and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters and epidemics, searching and rescuing, contributing to shining the noble qualities of Uncle Ho's soldiers in the new period. The work of building the Army has always been strong in politics, building a clean and strong Army Party organization that is exemplary in politics, ideology, ethics, organization and cadres, achieving many outstanding results.

The Congress acknowledged and commended the officers, soldiers, professional soldiers, defense workers and civil servants, laborers of the entire army and the militia and self-defense forces of the whole country in recent years for their loyalty, steadfastness, solidarity, proactiveness, creativity, overcoming difficulties, and efforts to successfully implement the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress of the Army, making important contributions to the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

To successfully implement the Resolution of the 12th Party Congress of the Army, the Congress calls on cadres, soldiers, professional soldiers, defense workers and civil servants, laborers of the entire army and militia and self-defense forces nationwide to promote the glorious tradition of the Vietnam People's Army and Militia and Self-Defense Forces, the noble qualities of Uncle Ho's soldiers, strive to successfully implement the directions, goals, breakthroughs, tasks and solutions identified by the Congress; build a revolutionary, disciplined, elite and modern People's Army; a strong and widespread militia and self-defense force; absolutely loyal to the Fatherland, the Party, the State and the people.

Continue to perform well the advisory function to the Party and State on military and national defense; promote the core role in building the all-people national defense, the all-people national defense posture associated with the solid people's security posture. Strictly implement the discipline and combat readiness regime, firmly protect the Fatherland in all situations. Promote the study and follow of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style, constantly promote the cultural values ​​of Uncle Ho's soldiers in the new period; build a politically strong Army. Continue to organize a lean, compact and strong force; improve the quality of training, education and training, build discipline and discipline management; ensure good logistics and techniques for tasks; make breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation, digital transformation and development of the defense industry. Promote international integration and defense diplomacy, contributing to enhancing the international position and prestige of the country and the Army.

The entire army continues to uphold the spirit of "sacrificing oneself for the people", taking the lead in preventing, combating, and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters and epidemics, searching and rescuing; actively participating in building new rural areas, sustainable poverty reduction, and repaying gratitude. Promote emulation of good and creative workers, combining the economy with national defense, continuing to affirm the position and role of defense enterprises in the country's development. Build exemplary clean and strong Party committees and organizations, build comprehensively strong "exemplary and exemplary" agencies and units; resolutely fight against individualism, prevent all manifestations of degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, "self-evolution", "self-transformation"; take the lead in protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints.

The Congress believes that, under the absolute and direct leadership in all aspects of the Party, the centralized and unified management and administration of the State; with the spirit of solidarity, initiative, creativity and high determination of cadres, soldiers, professional soldiers, defense workers and civil servants, laborers of the entire army and militia and self-defense forces of the whole country, the People's Army and the Militia and Self-Defense Forces will certainly excellently fulfill all tasks, make many achievements and feats in the new era of development of the Vietnamese nation, worthy of the trust and love of the Party, State, people and international friends.

    Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/quoc-phong-an-ninh/dai-hoi-xii-dang-bo-quan-doi/thu-cua-dai-hoi-dai-bieu-dang-bo-quan-doi-lan-thu-xii-nhiem-ky-2025-2030-848835