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Anti-corruption Steering Committee gets to workVNA

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong - Head of the Anti-Corruption Steering Committee - address theevent

The Party Central Committee formally established its Anti-Corruption Steering Committeein Hanoi on February 4, pursuant to Politburo Decision No. 162-QD/TW issued on February1.

Addressing the event, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also Head of the newCommittee, asked each of his members to set an example for others.The committee has 16 members, including five vice chairmen: Politburo member and PartySecretariat standing member Le Hong Anh, Politburo member and Party Central CommitteesInspection Commission Chairman Ngo Van Du, Politburo member and Deputy Prime MinisterNguyen Xuan Phuc, Party Central Committee member and National Assembly Vice ChairmanUong Chu Luu, and Party Central Committee member Nguyen Ba Thanh, who was also namedDirector of the Central Committees Internal Affairs Commission and permanent vice chairman ofthe new Steering Committee.All 16 members of the Steering Committee must be models in their uprightness, righteousness,self-abnegation and objectivity, Trong said.

Thanh immediately presented his tentative proposal for duties to be assigned to each committeemember. He also presented the committees tentative working plan for 2013, with an emphasis onaddressing the most critical and complex of alleged corruption cases.Thanh said he will ask the Party Central Committees internal affairs section, which will serve asthe standing office of the Anti-Corruption Steering Committee, to complete the new committeesapparatus and begin its work as soon as possible.Under last weeks Politburo decision, the new committees mission is to direct, coordinate, inspectand promote the anti-corruption effort nationwide, working hand-in-hand with Party Committeeswithin the Government, the Supreme Peoples Procuracy, the Government Inspectorate, the StateAudit of Vietnam, the Ministry of Public Security, the Central Military Commission, and otherrelevant agencies.

Nine main tasks assigned to the committee will include advising the Politburo and PartySecretariat in developing goals, laws, policies and regulations to battle corruption.The committee will also work closely with Party Committees at all levels to ensure that Partysresolutions and decisions against corruption were strictly implemented. The committee will alsohold periodic meetings to review the anti-corruption campaign and will submit ad hoc reports to thePolitburo and Party Secretariat.