Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked local authorities and relevant ministries and agencies to launch a successful relay of the Beijing Olympic torch in Ho Chi Minh City.

The PM met in Hanoi on April 20 with the authorised agencies and the municipal leaders on the preparations for the torch relay on April 29 and celebrations of the National Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day.

Vietnam ’s social security and order are stable but hostile forces always attempt to disturb the situation and make harm to the country’s prestige on the international arena, the leader said.

He stressed: “It is a must to ensure the success for the Olympic torch relay in the city,” adding that it would show the Vietnamese nation’s love for sports and peace and its amity with China .

The PM also asked the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, and the People’s Committees of provinces and cities to intensify dissemination of information to help people thoroughly understand the Party and State’s policies and not to be affected by evil forces’ distorted information.

(Source: VNA)