A ceremony to receive 16 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Cambodia during wartime, was held at Le Thanh International Border Gate in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on April 3.
The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs has asked the Department of Overseas Labour Management to devise plans to repatriate Vietnamese labourers working in countries and territories affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Indonesian Government has asked law enforcement agencies to tighten border security in a bid to prevent the repatriation of citizens who left the country to join the self-claimed Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria.
Carrying out search and repatriation of 1,500-2,000 sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers who laid down their lives in Laos and Cambodia during wartime is a key task of the national steering committee on search, repatriation and identification of remains of fallen soldiers (Steering Committee 515) in 2020.
Vietnam has not received any information on the UK’s financial support for the return of the bodies/ashes of 39 Vietnamese nationals found dead in a refrigerated lorry last month in Essex, the UK, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.
The Government will provide an advance to pay for the repatriation ofthe bodies of victims found dead last month in a containerlorry in Essex, the UK, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.
The Mekong Delta province of An Giang stands ready to help local firms to invest in Cambodia to develop tourism, trade and agriculture, said Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh on November 20.
The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on October 22 launched a search for and repatriation of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts in Cambodia for the 2019 – 2020 dry season.
The Vietnamese and Cambodian Governments on October 15 agreed to work closely to improve the cooperation efficiency in the search and repatriation of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives during war time in Cambodia.
Thailand and Myanmar have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation on transnational issues, including drug smuggling, the repatriation of Myanmar refugees, and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU).
Remains of 17 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Cambodia during wartime were brought home by a search and repatriation team of Dak Lak province in the 2018 – 2019 dry season.
Twenty-three remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers fallen in Cambodia were reburied at the martyrs’ cemetery in the southern province of Binh Phuoc on July 24.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue plans to search for and repatriate martyrs’ remains in Laos even in the rainy season if it has sufficient information.
Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Do Ba Ty met with war veterans and families of outstanding martyrs in Hanoi on January 23, an activity to mark 40 years since the country’s fight to defend the northern border (February 17, 1979).
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam laid out tasks for the Office of the National Steering Committee for Search and Repatriation of Remains of Fallen Soldiers during 2019-2020 at a recent teleconference in Hanoi.
The remains of 30 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives during wartime in Laos, were repatriated from Oudomxay province in northern Laos on December 13.
The Steering Committee on Search and Repatriation of Remains of Fallen Soldiers (Steering Committee 515) of Military Zone 7 reburied 580 remains of martyrs during the 2016-2018 period, heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on November 29.
Minister of Public Security, Sen. Lt. Gen. To Lam met with UK Minister of State for Immigration Caroline Nokes and Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field in London on November 22, as part of his visit to the country at the invitation of UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid.
Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to intensify their cooperation in searching and repatriating the remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Cambodia during wartime.
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