At the ceremony, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc presented a first-class National Protection Order to the NDA, for its achievements in training, combat service, army building, national defence consolidation during the 2016-2020 period, as well as contributing to the cause of building socialism and defending the Fatherland.
Speaking at ceremony, NDA Director Associate Professor Dr. Sen. Lt. Gen. Tran Viet Khoa said on January 3, 1977, the High-Level Military Academy (now NDA) opened its first training course. Over the past 45 years, it has organised over 400 courses and trained tens of thousands of high-ranking officers. Many of them had and have been taking important positions within the Party, State and army. It also offered 81 training courses for over 700 foreign senior military officers.
Lauding the efforts made by the NDA over the past 45 years, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged the NDA to continue improving training quality, by actively renewing its teaching methods, closely grasping the situation and bettering its strategic forecasting ability to offer early counselling to the Central Military Commission and Ministry of National Defence, while protecting the ideological foundation of the Party, and continuing to suggest measures to defeat all malicious plots by hostile forces, thus enhancing Vietnam’s position in the international arena.
More efforts should also be made to build the Academy into a strong "fortress" that is typical of politics, ideology, morality, organisation and cadres, with great influence throughout the army, he noted.
The State leader also expressed his belief that under the Party and State's leadership, and the direct helm of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence, the NDA would develop stronger and reap greater achievements, in the cause of education-training, helping to build a revolutionary, regular, elite and modern Vietnam People’s Army and firmly safeguard the socialist Fatherland.
