Striving to successfully fulfill the mission of diplomacy in the new era

Member of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Manh Cuong. (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

New era, new mission

The world is in a period of epochal change, from now until 2030 is the most important period to establish a new world order. The 14th National Congress of the Party will mark the moment when the country enters a new era, an era of national development and prosperity. Our country is also implementing revolutionary strategic decisions that pose many new issues and new, higher requirements.

Entering the 2025-2030 term, a term marking an important transition with the function of comprehensive leadership, the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has determined the overarching goal as: "Improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party Committee; building a comprehensive, modern, and professional diplomatic sector; promoting the pioneering, important, and regular role of foreign affairs and international integration, contributing to building and defending the Fatherland in the new era" .

As a grassroots Party Committee with 12,000 members operating in nearly 600 affiliated Party cells at home and abroad, in order to successfully complete the foreign affairs mission in the era of national development, innovating methods and improving the leadership capacity of the Party Committee of the Ministry in the new situation is an urgent requirement.

Innovation in the Party's leadership method - a practical imperative

In the process of leading the revolutionary cause, our Party has attached great importance to and issued many resolutions on innovating the Party's leadership methods. The Platform for National Construction in the Transitional Period to Socialism (supplemented and developed in 2011) clearly states that our Party is "the ruling Party, leading the State and society. The Party leads by its platform, strategies, orientations on major policies and guidelines; by propaganda, persuasion, mobilization, organization, inspection, supervision and by exemplary actions of Party members".

The document of the 13th National Congress of the Party stated: “Continue to innovate leadership methods, ensure the smooth, timely and correct leadership and direction of Party committees and Party organizations at all levels; promote the role of setting an example... Continue to innovate and improve the quality of building and promulgating Party resolutions... Promote administrative reform, apply information technology in Party activities. Continue to summarize practices, study theories on innovation in the content and methods of Party leadership and governance in new conditions”. It can be said that synchronous innovation of methods and improvement of the Party's leadership and governance capacity is one of the key tasks.

Besides innovating leadership methods, improving the Party's leadership capacity can be understood as focusing on comprehensively developing the necessary factors for the Party's leadership, including the capacity to orient guidelines and strategies; the capacity to propose policies and guidelines; the capacity to organize and direct the implementation, inspection and supervision of the Party's work; the capacity to evaluate, draw lessons and make timely and effective adjustments.

Some solutions to innovate methods and improve the leadership capacity of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

With more than 70% of its affiliated party organizations abroad, the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has its own specific operational characteristics. Overseas party organizations are far from the Central Government and operate in difficult and complicated local environmental conditions. The Party membership is diverse, including not only cadres and party members in the diplomatic sector but also cadres and party members of departments, ministries, branches and 34 provinces and centrally-run cities working, studying and working abroad, constantly changing (an average of 30%/year) and subject to the influence of local laws and the impact of many information streams, making them targets of hostile forces.

In the context of many changes in the world and the region, the country is in a period of historical transformation. From the above requirements and tasks, innovating methods and improving the leadership capacity of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the new situation, it is necessary to focus on the following solutions.

Firstly , improve political leadership capacity; innovate methods, improve decision-making capacity of the Party Committee of the Ministry through issuing resolutions, conclusions, and leadership documents.

During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh pointed out: “The Party is like a human body, orders and resolutions are like blood vessels. Blood vessels run throughout the body, making the person healthy. Where the blood vessels stop and do not run, that place becomes paralyzed, causing illness. Orders and resolutions go quickly, go all the way from top to bottom, work is done quickly, everything is done. At whichever level they stop, from that level down, they are paralyzed.”

With the goal of innovation, improving the quality of promulgation and organizing the most effective implementation of the Party's policies and guidelines, all policies and resolutions must be truly comprehensive, breakthrough, leading, paving the way for new factors to develop, highly actionable and aiming for specific results. Therefore, it is necessary to develop and promulgate resolutions, directives and conclusions of the Party Committee of the Ministry in a concise, succinct manner with profound content, close to reality and in the direction of action for implementation.

Amend, supplement and perfect the working regulations of Party committees and Party organizations at all levels, strictly define the tasks, powers and working relationships, overcome the situation of making excuses, replacing or loosening the leadership role of Party committees and organizations. Standardize the guidelines, methods and processes in all aspects of work. For Party building work, it is necessary to systematize and update the new regulations of the Central Committee in the direction of "easy to understand, easy to implement", apply information technology so that Party committees at all levels at home and abroad can easily access and use.

Based on the Resolution of the 1st Congress of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, term 2025-2030, the Party Committee of the Ministry issued an Action Program to implement the Resolution and led Party organizations and Party members to organize the implementation. In addition to the annual, quarterly and monthly work programs, based on the actual situation of work implementation, the Executive Committee and the Standing Committee will focus on promptly issuing specialized resolutions and conclusions for comprehensive leadership. Strongly promote the role and effectiveness of the activities of the advisory and support departments of the Party Committee of the Ministry.

Second, promote Party building in terms of ideology and theory. Constantly innovate propaganda methods, thoroughly grasp the Party's policies, guidelines, resolutions, and conclusions, and protect the Party's ideological foundation. Continue to perfect the theory of Vietnam's foreign affairs and the role of foreign affairs in the new era.

Strongly innovate the content and methods of ideological work; enhance the combativeness, educational quality, and persuasiveness in propaganda, political and ideological education. Link the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and lifestyle with the work of building and rectifying the Party and a clean and strong political system. Maintain discipline and improve the quality of theoretical training. Improve the quality of theoretical exchange activities with communist parties and political parties around the world.

Strongly deploy the application of information technology in organizing learning, thoroughly grasping the directives and resolutions of the Central Committee and the Party Committee of the Ministry in direct and online forms to create conditions for all cadres, party members, civil servants and public employees of the diplomatic sector at home and abroad to participate in learning.

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