The ceremony was attended by Mr. Jun Dae Joo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to Vietnam; Mr. Chang Jae Yun, Chief Representative of KOICA in Vietnam. As for the MPS of Vietnam were Senior-Lieutenant General Dang Van Hieu, member of the Central Party Committee, Permanent Vice Minister of Public Security; Representatives of Departments, Agencies within the MPS. As for the PPA were Lieutenant General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem, President; members of the Party Committee, Directorate Board and representatives of the functional units.

After a process of preparation and completion of the relevant procedures, the project "Establishment of E-Library at the PPA" was approved officially by the Government of Republic of Korean and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam. It marked a new step in the development process of the PPA and considered as an important mark in the process of cooperation between the PPA and the Korean partners.

Lieutenant General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem, President of the PPA 

spoke at the Ceremony

The project is funded by the Official Development Assistance (ODA) of the Korean Government with total of budget US$ 2.3 million and Vietnamese Counterpart funds VND 3 billion. The implementation of project will help the PPA to enhance the professional capacity and the advanced-technical equipment to serve for the demand of teaching, research of PPA officers, lecturers and students through the modern e-library at the PPA, which will contribute to foster the process of building and developing the PPA become to the key training institutions of the Public Security Force and of the Nation. The project will be completed in 2016.

Speaking at the ceremony, on behalf of the leader of the MPS of Vietnam, Vice Minister Dang Van Hieu expressed his thank to the Government of the Republic of Korea, Embassy of Korea in Vietnam, Agency Korea International cooperation Agency (KOICA) actively support and create the favorable conditions for the PPA in process of seeking for the license of project approval. He emphasized that the project was a new step in the process of building the PPA become the key training institutions of the Branch and the Nation.

The participants took the memorial photograph

He also requires the PPA to raise the high responsibility, implement seriously the commitments in the record of project discussion and the provisions of law on the project management and implementation to ensure schedule and quality; prepare the qualified officers to use effectively the advanced e-library system after finishing the project. He also requested the functional units of the MPS to actively coordinate, support the PPA and Korean counterparts during the project implementation process.

At the ceremony, on behalf of the project implementing agency, Lieutenant General Nguyen Xuan Yem expressed his thanks for the support of the Korean Ambassador to Vietnam, the Chief Representative of KOICA in Vietnam and other partner agencies and Korean experts in the process of implementing the project. He also expressed his thanks to the interest, direction from leadership of the MPS, especially the Vice Minister Dang Van Hieu. He committed that the PPA would make effort to coordinate with the functional units to implement effectively the contents of the projects as the proposed objectives and requirements.

Written by Cong Phuong

Translated by Xuan Thanh