
The Dak Lak border guardforce is assigned to manage and safeguard more than 73km of borderline with theCambodian province of Mondulkiri. There are seven border guard posts located infour communes of Ea Sup and Buon Don districts.
At a meeting with theprovince’s Border Guard Command, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen MinhVu spoke highly of the force’s performance, especially in managing andprotecting the border, dealing well with issues emerging, and advising theprovincial administration about border demarcation and marker planting.
Vu, who is also Chairman ofthe National Boundary Commission, asked the force to push ahead with bordermanagement and defence.
The Command should continue assistingthe Dak Lak Party Committee and People’s Committee to work with relevantagencies of Mondulkiri province to soon open the Dak Rue (Vietnam) - Chi Miet (Cambodia)border gate pair.
The force also needs tomaintain the traditional friendship and close coordination with its Cambodiancounterpart so as to build the shared land boundary into a border of peace,friendship, cooperation, and development, according to the official.
The two countries share1,137km of land border that runs across 10 provinces of Vietnam and nine provincesof Cambodia./.