Vietnam Coast Guard – core force in national security protection
For the past years, the Vietnam Coast Guard has always accomplished its mission successfully, contributing to firmly protecting the sovereignty, national security, safety and order in national waters.
The Vietnam Coast Guard has always accomplished its mission successfully, hence maintaining a peaceful, cooperative and friendly environment in the East Sea (Photo: VNA)
The Vietnam Coast Guard was established on August 28, 1998. Over the past time, the Vietnam Coast Guard has prevented thousands of foreign vessels from violating Vietnam’s waters, detected hundreds of trade fraud cases, and busted many major drug rings (Photo: VNA)
Besides, the force has provided support for fishermen who were in distress at sea (Photo: VNA)
Coast Guard ship of Coast Guard High Command Zone 4 timely rescue and bring a fisherman being in danger while fishing onshore for treatment, September 15, 2017 (Photo: VNA)
Coast Guard ship 8001 in a mission on Truong Sa archipelago in the south central province of Khanh Hoa (Photo: VNA)
Coast Guard ship 8001 in a mission on DK1/15 platform area (Photo: VNA)
Soldiers of Naval Group 01 of the Vietnam Coast Guard Command Region 1in a surveillance at Hai Phong port (Photo: VNA)
Two coast guard ships of the Coast Guard Region 1 High Command left the northern port city of Hai Phong on April 21, beginning a patrol to examine the enforcement of the Vietnam-China agreement on fishery cooperation in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The Coast Guard Region 4 High Command held a ceremony in the southernmost province of Ca Mau on May 30 to launch squadron 42, in response to tasks in Vietnam’s southwest sea area in the new period.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a working session with the Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG) High Command in Hanoi on July 11, in which he stressed that the force’s responsibility is very heavy but also very glorious.
India on August 1 affirmed its “genuine and legitimate” interests in peace and stability in the East Sea, and called on relevant parties to abide by international law.
Vietnam Coast Guard has conducted hundreds of rescues of fishermen, their assets and ships at sea and accompanied them, becoming their firm fulcrum while going out and clinging to the sea.
India’s Larsen & Toubro shipyard near Chennai city of Tamil Nadu State has launched a project to build 12 high-speed vessels for the Vietnam Border Guard Force, funded by the Indian government’s credit package.