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Vietnam, Laos strengthen comprehensive cooperation in border security protection

Representatives of the Border Guard Command under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam and the Border Guard Department of the General Staff of the Lao People's Army held a conference to review three years of implementing their cooperation agreement on December 11 in Huong Hoa district, the central province of Quang Tri.
Vietnam, Laos strengthen comprehensive cooperation in border security protection ảnh 1At the conference (Photo: VNA)
Quang Tri (VNA) - Representativesof the Border Guard Command under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam and theBorder Guard Department of the General Staff of the Lao People's Army held aconference to review three years of implementing their cooperation agreement onDecember 11 in Huong Hoa district, the central province of Quang Tri.

Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien of Vietnam and Lao DeputyMinister of Defence Lieut. Gen. Vongkham Phommakone attended the conference.

Addressing the event, Deputy Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien highly valuedresults of the agreement’s implementation over the past three years, thus contributingto maintaining peace, stability and development of each country’s border areas,boosting the socio-economic development of Vietnam and Laos, and consolidating thespecial friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties,States and armies.

Over the past three years, the two sides maintained the regular exchange ofinformation and close cooperation in joint patrols and experience sharing inborder protection and management, anti-crime, while strengthening the COVID-19 preventionand control work. They also coordinated to carry out drills to ensure order andsecurity in the border areas, organise border friendship exchange programmes inorder to promote the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensivecooperation between the two armies.

At the conference, both sides agreed that the two countries’ border guards willcontinue coordinating to implement contents of the Cooperation Protocol for the2020-2025 period and the cooperation plan for 2022 between the two defenceministries, particularly in fighting crime, illegal immigration and the COCID-19pandemic./.
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