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Border provinces of Vietnam, Laos tighten control of migration

Officials of Quang Tri province and two Lao provinces of Savannakhet and Salavan have reached agreement on measures to curb spontaneous migration and undocumented marriages among residents living along the Vietnam-Laos border.
Border provinces of Vietnam, Laos tighten control of migration ảnh 1Officials of Quang Tri province and two Lao provinces of Savannakhet and Salavan at the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA) 

Quang Tri (VNA) –Officials of Quang Tri province and two Lao provinces of Savannakhet andSalavan have reached agreement on measures to curb spontaneous migration and undocumentedmarriages among residents living along the Vietnam-Laos border.

Delegates of the three borderprovinces met in Quang Tri’s Dong Ha city on December 19 to review theimplementation of an agreement on handling the problems of free migration and undocumentedmarriages.

One of the measures is to promoteeducational campaigns to raise residents’ awareness about and compliance withthe Vietnam-Laos agreement on land border and border gatemanagement regulations, which was signed in 2016. Relevant forceswill coordinate with village elders to disseminate information to eachhousehold.  

Relevant forces and local authorities of thethree provinces will tighten the control of entry and exit by citizens inborder areas, and expand the model of twinning relations between villagesacross the border.

Local authorities will also facilitate tradeexchange and investment in border areas, thus improving the living conditionsof local people.

The central province of Quang Tri shares morethan 179km of border with Laos’ Savannakhet and Salavan. Statistics since 2013showed 855 Lao and 493 Vietnamese migrated across the border or became partnersin undocumented marriages.
So far Quang Tri has completed applications forVietnamese citizenship for 756 Lao migrants, and the 734 of them have beengranted citizenship./.
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