Vietnamese, Lao provinces cooperate in border management

Officials from Vietnam’s central Thua Thien–Hue province of and Sekong province of Laos held an annual meeting on the border work in Hue city on July 26 and signed the minutes on border management.
Vietnamese, Lao provinces cooperate in border management ảnh 1Vietnamese and Lao officers at a border patrol (Photo: VNA)
 
ThuaThien-Hue (VNA) – Officials from Vietnam’s central Thua Thien–Hue provinceof and Sekong province of Laos held an annual meeting on the border work in Huecity on July 26 and signed the minutes on border management. 

The event was co-chaired by Vice Chairman ofThua Thien-Hue’s People’s Committee Nguyen Dung and Thavon Phommalaylun,Sekong’s Deputy Governor and Head of the provincial border work steeringcommittee.

At the meeting, the two sides lauded the effortsof border security forces in border protection and management, safeguardingborder markers and maintaining social order and political security along the sharedborder.

They have also maintained visits of delegationsto share border work experience, contributing to boosting people-to-peopleexchanges and cross-border trade. 

Thua Thien-Hue province has helped Lao residentsin the border areas of Sekong province stabilise their lives by providing themplant and animal varieties and free healthcare. Meanwhile, the Sekong sidesupported Vietnam in searching for and repatriating hundreds of remains ofVietnamese soldiers who died in Laos.

The two provinces agreed to strengthen bordermanagement and cooperation in combating border crimes and trade frauds, whiletaking measures to raise public awareness of border laws and regulations.

They also pledged to enhance border tradecooperation, priotising infrastructure investment to support trade activitiesand increasing import-export turnover between the two provinces. -VNA
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