Vietnam, Cambodia border guards hold friendly exchange

Border guards of Vietnam’s southern Tay Ninh province and military officials and police from Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province held the first friendly exchange in Tay Ninh on December 29.
Vietnam, Cambodia border guards hold friendly exchange ảnh 1Vietnamese border guards (Source: internet)
Tay Ninh (VNA) – Border guards ofVietnam’s southern Tay Ninh province and military officials and police fromCambodia’s Svay Rieng province held the first friendly exchange in Tay Ninh onDecember 29.

Main activities include the implementation of jointpatrols and crime prevention in the border area from border marker 150 to 151(about 2.8 km long) according to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signedbetween Vietnam’s Border Guards High Command and Cambodia’s National Policeunder the Ministry of Interior in December 2015.


A battalion of Svay Rieng border guards signed a coordinationagreement with Tay Ninh’s Phuoc Tan, Vam Trang Trau, and Ninh Dien border posts to maintain regular information exchanges on bordersituation and outcomes in anti-crime, rescue of victims, illegal immigration,and trafficking.

They agreed to actively increaseawareness-raising among people along the shared border lines to implement seriouslylegal documents signed between the two countries’ governments, as well asnormative legal documents in building, managing and protecting border gates.

They move to establish a friendly army-people medicalstation in Tay Ninh’s Chau Thanh district with an investment of over 1 billionVND to provide free medicine and healthcare services for people along theshared border area.

A workshop was held on December 28 to presentscholarships to needy students from the two localities./.

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