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Vietnam launches catalogue of state secrets
Vietnam's government is set to compile an inventory of all its state secrets as part of an overhaul of the way sensitive information is classified.
State media says a government directive requires ministers, political and social groups as well as provincial chiefs to compile a list of secrets they are responsible for guarding.
The new directive, which takes effect on April 13th, designates three classes of classified information.
They range from basic state secrets to extremely sensitive top-secret documents, especially those concerning national security, foreign policy, espionage and counter-espionage and the internal wrangling of the communist party.
The prime minister's office will decide what secrets must be graded "top" and the police and defence ministries will handle their own inventories.
30/03/2002 18:01:38 | ABC Radio Australia News
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