Hanoi (VNA) – The Central SteeringCommittee for Anti-Corruption held a symposium in Hanoi on November 28 todiscuss the outcomes of corruption prevention and control during 2013-2020,especially since the beginning of the Party’s 12th tenure.

Standing Vice Chairman of the Party’s CentralTheoretical Council Phung Huu Phu said the Party views corruption preventionand control as a critically important task in the Party and political systembuilding and national development.

During the 11th and 12th tenures, the PartyCentral Committee have organised many events to review anti-corruption effortsvia which a number of valuable lessons and experience have been gained, helpingthe Party Central Committee fine-tune related viewpoints and guidelines andissue practical solutions to promote the task, especially since the beginningof the 12th tenure.

Anti-corruption activities have reaped manyimportant, comprehensive and considerable outcomes, winning over support fromcadres, Party members, and people, as well as high evaluation from theinternational community, he noted.

At the workshop, participants shared the viewthat since the establishment of the Central Steering Committee forAnti-Corruption in 2013, especially during the almost five years ofimplementing the 12th National Party Congress’s resolution, the corruptioncombat has been carried out in a drastic, persistent, synchronous,comprehensive, methodological, and substantive manner. It has combinedprevention with settlement of corruption, as well as the corruption fight withthe Party and political system building and rectification.

As a result, corruption has gradually beencontained and tended to decline, helping to ensure political stability, boostsocio-economic development, and consolidate cadres, Party members, and people’strust in the Party and State, they said.

Deputy Minister of Public Security, Maj. Gen.Nguyen Duy Ngoc held that the fight against corruption must be placed under thedirect, absolute, and comprehensive leadership of the Party, with the CentralSteering Committee for Anti-Corruption directly giving orders. 

It also needs close, timely, and effectivecoordination with Party agencies in implementing the Party’s disciplinarymeasures so as to pave the way for punishments imposed by the State andorganisations, as well as criminal penalties, Ngoc said, adding that there mustnot be off-limits zones in this combat.

Phan Dinh Trac, Standing Vice Chairman of thecentral steering committee and Chairman of the Party Central Committee’sCommission for Internal Affairs, held that corruption prevention and controlare an important, regular, and difficult task that must be carried out bothurgently and in the long term.

All-level authorities and sectors should carryout concerted solutions in a resolute and persistent fashion and withoutexceptions. The task should be associated with thrift practice, wastefulnessprevention, and the building and rectification of the Party and politicalsystem while capitalising on the combined strength of the political system andthe entire people, according to Trac./.