While attending a meeting to mark the Academy’s 30^th anniversary in Hanoi on January 3, Mr Triet asked the Academy to grasp Party resolutions on national defence in the new situation, study and make recommendations to the Party, State and the Ministry of Defence to help maintain national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The State President also praised the Academy’s cadres, lecturers, students and staff for their efforts to fulfil tasks over the past 30 years, helping realise the foreign relations policy of the Party, State and Army.   

According to Academy director Nguyen The Tri, the Academy has become the training centre for generals, senior officers and military scientists of the Vietnam People’s Army and the armies of several other countries. It has organised more than 200 courses for more than 11,000 senior military officers and 22 other courses for more than 1,200 senior Party and State officials. Twenty-three courses have also been organised for nearly 300 senior officials of the armies of Laos, Cambodia, Cuba and several countries in Africa and Latin America. 

On behalf of the Party and State, President Triet pinned the badge “Hero of People’s Armed Forces” on the traditional flag of the Academy.