The National Border Committee needs to resolutely protect the country’s land and sea areas as well as respect territorial sovereignty and national borders of neighbouring countries.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made this statement at a ceremony to mark the 35 th anniversary of the committee under the Foreign Ministry and present it with the Labour Hero title on Nov. 3.
Addressing the event, PM Dung reiterated the Party and State’s consistent policy of firmly protecting national border security, sovereignty and territorial integrity in any circumstances.
The PM directed the committee to continue boosting negotiations with neighbouring countries on defining national borders and building border lines of peace, friendship, stability and cooperation for development, both on land and on sea.
During the past 35 years, under the direction of the Party, Government and the Foreign Ministry, the National Border Committee has made contributions to the protection of territorial sovereignty and the national interest.
The committee’s most prominent achievements include the completion of land border demarcation and Tonkin Gulf delimitation with China , and land demarcation and marker planting with Laos .
The committee signed the border delineation treaty with Cambodia in 1985, the maritime boundary delimitation agreement with Thailand in 1997 and the continental shelf delimitation agreement with Indonesia in 2003.
The committee submitted its report on the position of its continental shelf that lies beyond 200 nautical miles from the country’s coastlines to the UN’s Commission for the Limits of Continental Shelf.
Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem expressed the determination of the staff of the Foreign Ministry and the National Border Committee to strictly follow the guidance of the State and Party’s leaders.
He said the committee will continue to work closer with relevant ministries and branches to protect sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security and build borderlines of peace, friendship, stability and cooperation for development, both on land and sea./.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made this statement at a ceremony to mark the 35 th anniversary of the committee under the Foreign Ministry and present it with the Labour Hero title on Nov. 3.
Addressing the event, PM Dung reiterated the Party and State’s consistent policy of firmly protecting national border security, sovereignty and territorial integrity in any circumstances.
The PM directed the committee to continue boosting negotiations with neighbouring countries on defining national borders and building border lines of peace, friendship, stability and cooperation for development, both on land and on sea.
During the past 35 years, under the direction of the Party, Government and the Foreign Ministry, the National Border Committee has made contributions to the protection of territorial sovereignty and the national interest.
The committee’s most prominent achievements include the completion of land border demarcation and Tonkin Gulf delimitation with China , and land demarcation and marker planting with Laos .
The committee signed the border delineation treaty with Cambodia in 1985, the maritime boundary delimitation agreement with Thailand in 1997 and the continental shelf delimitation agreement with Indonesia in 2003.
The committee submitted its report on the position of its continental shelf that lies beyond 200 nautical miles from the country’s coastlines to the UN’s Commission for the Limits of Continental Shelf.
Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem expressed the determination of the staff of the Foreign Ministry and the National Border Committee to strictly follow the guidance of the State and Party’s leaders.
He said the committee will continue to work closer with relevant ministries and branches to protect sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security and build borderlines of peace, friendship, stability and cooperation for development, both on land and sea./.
