Also attending were Senior Lieutenant General Phung Si Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army; representatives of leaders of agencies and functional units of the Ministry of National Defense.

Implementing the decisions of the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Defense on personnel work and the direction of the Central Military Commission Standing Committee, at the conference, Lieutenant General Pham Ngoc Hung handed over the task of Director General of General Department II to Lieutenant General Tran Cong Chinh, Political Commissar of General Department II.

Speaking at the conference, General Phan Van Giang acknowledged and highly appreciated Lieutenant General Pham Ngoc Hung in recent years, in his position as Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, General Director, Head of the Intelligence Steering Committee of General Department II, and Chief of Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance of the entire army, who together with the Standing Committee, Party Committee, and General Department Commander led and directed General Department II and the entire Defense Intelligence sector to complete all aspects of work well and comprehensively, with many aspects completed excellently, contributing to the increasingly enhanced position, prestige, and role of Vietnam's Defense Intelligence.

General Phan Van Giang speaks at the conference.

Assigning the task of General Director of General Department II to Lieutenant General Tran Cong Chinh, General Phan Van Giang hoped that in his new position, Comrade Tran Cong Chinh would continue to strive, practice, promote revolutionary ethics, further improve his working capacity, and together with the Standing Committee, Party Committee, and Command of General Department II, lead and direct the unit and the entire Intelligence sector to successfully carry out all assigned tasks, worthy of the trust of superiors in him personally and the entire force.

Conference delegates.

Agreeing with the content of the handover minutes and the opinions expressed at the conference, General Phan Van Giang highly appreciated the leadership, direction, responsibility, and spirit of solidarity and unity in the Standing Committee, Party Committee, and Command of General Department II. In order to meet the requirements and tasks in the coming time, General Phan Van Giang requested that the Defense Intelligence Service must constantly take the initiative to grasp the situation, improve the ability to research and forecast strategies, promptly advise the Party, State, Central Military Commission, and Ministry of National Defense on appropriate policies and countermeasures to firmly protect the Fatherland early and from afar, absolutely not to be passive or surprised; perform well the functions and tasks of comprehensive strategic intelligence, increase the effectiveness of consulting and proposing; make worthy contributions to the successful implementation of the strategic goals of the Party, State, and Army.

General Phan Van Giang presented flowers to congratulate Lieutenant General Pham Ngoc Hung.

General Phan Van Giang presented flowers to congratulate Lieutenant General Tran Cong Chinh.

In addition, it is necessary to proactively implement measures to improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of Party committees and organizations at all levels, comprehensively lead all aspects of the unit's work; focus on building the Party Committee of General Department II to be clean and strong in politics, ideology, organization, ethics and cadres; synchronously deploy solutions to build an organization, apparatus and intelligence force structure that is "lean, compact, strong, professional, effective and functional"; build a team of cadres with strong political will, strategic vision, sharp professional perspective and thinking, and professional knowledge commensurate with their responsibilities and tasks.

Leaders and commanders of General Department II congratulate Lieutenant General Tran Cong Chinh.

General Phan Van Giang believes that the Standing Committee, Party Committee, and Command of General Department II will continue to promote tradition, high solidarity, and unity, leading and directing the unit to successfully complete all assigned tasks; build a comprehensively strong General Department that is "exemplary and typical"; and build the Defense Intelligence sector to truly be a particularly trustworthy political force, an absolutely loyal fighting force of the Party, State, Army, and people.