What is national security protection in Vietnam? What are the rights and obligations of citizens in national security protection in Vietnam?
What is national security protection in Vietnam? What are the principles of national security protection activities?
Pursuant to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 3 of the 2004 Law on National Security in Vietnam, national security protection means the prevention, detection, stoppage of, and the struggle to frustrate, all activities of infringing upon the national security.
According to that, the principles of national security protection activities are specified in Article 5 of the 2004 Law on National Security in Vietnam as follows:
Principles for national security protection activities
1. To abide by the Constitution, the law, ensure the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations, individuals.
2. To be placed under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the unified management of the State; to mobilize the integrated strength of the political system and the entire nation with the national security protection specialized forces acting as the core.
3. To closely combine the tasks of national security protection with the tasks of economic, cultural, social construction and development; to efficiently coordinate security, defense and external activities.
4. To actively prevent and struggle to foil all schemes and acts of infringing upon the national security.
Thus, the national security protection is carried out according to the above four principles.
What is national security protection in Vietnam? What are the rights and obligations of citizens in national security protection in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)
What are the rights and obligations of citizens in national security protection in Vietnam?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 17 of the 2004 Law on National Security in Vietnam as follows:
Rights and obligations of citizens in national security protection
1. To join in the national security protection forces and perform the national security protection tasks according to law provisions.
2. To denounce acts of infringing upon the national security, acts of abusing the performance of national security protection tasks to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and individuals.
3. To detect, propose the administrations or the national security protection agencies to redress loopholes and shortcomings in the implementation of legislation on national security protection.
4. To detect, provide in time information and/or documents related to, activities of infringing upon the national security to the nearest administration or national security protection agencies.
5. To act upon the requests of national security protection agencies according to law provisions.
6. To assist, create conditions for, responsible agencies and persons to apply preventive measures, detect, stop and struggle against activities of infringing upon the national security.
Thus, in national security protection activities, citizens have the following rights and obligations:
- To join in the national security protection forces and perform the national security protection tasks according to law provisions.
- To denounce acts of infringing upon the national security, acts of abusing the performance of national security protection tasks to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and individuals.
- To detect, propose the administrations or the national security protection agencies to redress loopholes and shortcomings in the implementation of legislation on national security protection.
- To detect, provide in time information and/or documents related to, activities of infringing upon the national security to the nearest administration or national security protection agencies.
- To act upon the requests of national security protection agencies according to law provisions.
- To assist, create conditions for, responsible agencies and persons to apply preventive measures, detect, stop and struggle against activities of infringing upon the national security.
What acts are prohibited in national security protection in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 13 of the 2004 Law on National Security in Vietnam, prohibited acts in national security protection include:
- Organizing, operating, colluding with, instigating, controlling, inciting, buying off, deceiving or dragging other persons to oppose the people’s administration, to abolish the leadership role of the Communist Party of Vietnam, to divide the country, to disrupt the national unity bloc.
- Undertaking the tasks of organizations, individuals to conduct activities of infringing upon the national security or participating in, assisting, providing finance, weapons and means for, organizations and/or individuals to conduct activities of infringing upon the national security.
- Illegally gathering, storing, transporting, trading in, using, disclosing, supplying or distributing information, documents and articles classified as State secrets.
- Infringing upon important national security targets.
- Opposing or hindering agencies, organizations and/or individuals from performing the tasks of national security protection.
- Abusing the performance of national security protection tasks to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations, individuals.
- Other acts of infringing upon the national security, prescribed in the Penal Code and relevant legal documents.
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