Firmly protect border security and sovereignty
(Baonghean) -After 55 years of fighting, building and growing together with the Border Guard Force of the whole country, the Border Guard (BĐBP) of Nghe An has always promoted the tradition of the heroic Soviet homeland, constantly striving in all aspects, achieving many outstanding achievements, adding to the heroic tradition of the people's armed forces in the beloved homeland of Uncle Ho. On the occasion of the Border Guard of Nghe An receiving the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces, Nghe An Newspaper had an interview with Colonel Dinh Ngoc Van - Provincial Party Committee member, Commander of the Border Guard of Nghe An.
Reporter:Could you please tell us about the outstanding achievements that the officers and soldiers of the Provincial Border Guard have achieved throughout their mission of firmly protecting the sovereignty and security of the border?
Comrade Dinh Ngoc Van:Nghe An Border Guard is assigned to manage and protect 419 km of land border adjacent to 3 provinces of Laos: Hua Phan, Xieng Khouang, Bo Ly Kham Xay and 82 km of coastline.
Since its establishment, the People's Armed Police force - now the Nghe An Border Guard - has been assigned the task of protecting the Party and State's headquarters, important political and economic targets inland, and at the same time carrying out the task of protecting the province's borders and seas. Generations of officers and soldiers of the Nghe An Border Guard have marched to the border highlands, set up posts and stations, stayed close to the land and people, built political bases, mobilized people to implement the Party's policies and the State's laws, helped people stabilize production, develop socio-economy, build a revolutionary government, and build a "border steel rampart" to protect the sovereignty and security of the Fatherland's borders. In the fight against bandits and spies and commandos, the Nghe An Border Guard coordinated with the police, army, militia, and guerrillas to destroy and capture 216 American and puppet spies and commandos who had infiltrated Nghe An. They crushed the plots of bandits and riots in the Nghe An border area by the US imperialists and their lackeys, gradually stabilizing the political security situation and social order and safety in the border and coastal areas.
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| Nghe An Border Guards visit Dan Lai people. Photo: Hai Thuong |
In the fight against the US imperialists' destructive war by air force and navy in the North, the officers and soldiers of the Border Guard of Nghe An steadfastly held their ground in the frontline of the Fatherland, together with the army and people of the province, fought back hundreds of enemy bombing raids, shooting down 30 aircraft of all kinds. Among them, Nam Can Control Station was the target of fierce bombing by US aircraft, but the officers and soldiers here used infantry guns to fight back, shooting down 2 US aircraft. Cua Hoi Control Station steadfastly held their ground, organized the fight, and shot down 4 US aircraft.
With the motto of helping friends is helping ourselves, the Nghe An Border Guard force has sent 6 working teams to help Laos build political bases, fight and destroy many bandit groups in the K5 front (Laos). The bright and loyal examples of Nghe An Border Guard soldiers have left deep feelings in the hearts of the Lao people, contributing to building more solidarity, friendship and loyalty between the two peoples of Vietnam and Laos.
Throughout the war of national liberation and defense, generations of Nghe An Border Guard officers and soldiers volunteered to fight on the battlefields. 194 comrades heroically sacrificed their lives, hundreds of officers and soldiers bore the wounds of war.
Entering the period of innovation, the task of protecting the sovereignty and security of the borders and seas of the Fatherland, although having many advantages, also has many difficulties and challenges. Faced with the new requirements of the revolutionary cause, the officers and soldiers of the Nghe An Border Guard must be proactive, creative, and properly apply the Party's domestic and foreign policies, while maintaining strict implementation of agreements and treaties on border regulations; effectively combating and preventing illegal border crossings and sea crossings; and promptly and correctly handling activities that violate the sovereignty and security of the borders and seas. Actively attacking and sweeping all types of crimes, ensuring the maintenance of the sovereignty and security of the Fatherland's borders, creating many peaks in the implementation of political tasks.
From 2002 to 2005, in the face of the complicated situation of bandits' activities in the border areas directly affecting our security and order, the Provincial Party Committee - Border Guard Command has built and effectively implemented plan 511/KH - CH on "Ensuring security and order in the area South of Route 7, coordinating with Laos to influence reactionary and bandit subjects to surrender, mobilizing the masses in the bandit area to return to the government of Laos" contributing significantly to the complete disintegration of the F206 Bandit Cluster that existed after 1975, ensuring the maintenance of sovereignty and security and order on the border line South of Route 7.
Actively participating in building and consolidating the grassroots political system, socio-economic development programs, helping people eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, and achieving many good results, contributing to building increasingly strong border communes... The image of "the green-uniformed teacher", "the green-uniformed doctor" and "the green-uniformed cultural propagandist" has won the sympathy, trust and love of ethnic people, worthy of the title "Uncle Ho's soldiers" in the new era.
In recognition of its achievements over the past 55 years, the Nghe An Border Guard has been awarded many noble prizes by the Party, the State, all levels and sectors: 10 times the unit was awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the State; 7 Military Exploit Medals, 237 Exploit Medals of various ranks, 4 flower baskets of Uncle Ho and Uncle Ton, 2 rotating flags "Determination to defeat the American invaders" by President Ho. On December 19, 1979, the entire People's Public Security force of Nghe Tinh province (now Nghe An and Ha Tinh Border Guards) was awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the State; especially on December 13, 2013, the Nghe An Border Guard was honored by the Party and State with the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces for the second time.
PV:Among those glorious achievements, the Nghe An Border Guard has been particularly creative in consolidating the political system in the border area, helping the Party, the government and the ethnic people on both borders very effectively. Could you elaborate on this issue?
Comrade Dinh Ngoc Van: TIn the work of building the area, participating in building political bases, developing the socio-economy, eliminating hunger and reducing poverty... Nghe An Border Guard has had many new, creative and effective ways such as: sending officers to work as secretaries and deputy secretaries of border commune party committees; sending provincial border guard party members to temporarily participate in activities at weak village party cells and in religious areas. Thereby, the locality has eliminated 22 villages and hamlets without party members, 12 villages and hamlets without party cells, trained and admitted 864 party members, established 15 new party cells, built and consolidated 7 party committees from good to strong; Consolidating and perfecting the mass organizations and socio-political organizations of 129 villages and hamlets from weak to strong... creating positive changes in the quality of activities of the grassroots political system, especially in ethnic minority and religious areas, which was highly appreciated by the provincial leaders and affirmed that this is an effective and highly creative model of operation of the Border Guard of Nghe An province.
Participate in socio-economic development programs, hunger eradication, poverty reduction and new rural construction programs; focus on building points to replicate models, such as the Huoi Son village model, Tam Hop commune, Tuong Duong district; model to help 3 poor communes (Bac Ly commune (Ky Son), Tam Hop commune (Tuong Duong) and Mon Son commune (Con Cuong). Notably, it has built and effectively implemented Plan 316/KH-BCHBP on "Conservation and sustainable development of the Dan Lai ethnic minority in the core area of Pu Mat National Park - Con Cuong district" by actively mobilizing and exploiting funding sources to invest in building infrastructure: clinics, schools, clean water works, irrigation canal systems, internal roads, worth nearly 16.7 billion VND; supporting seedlings, fertilizers, instructing people on production and livestock techniques; propagating and mobilizing people to actively eliminate backward customs, building cultural life in residential areas... contributing to improving material and spiritual life, creating a significant change in the rural appearance of the Dan Lai people in the core area of Pu Mat National Park.
In the implementation of the campaign "Warm homes for the poor in border and island areas", the unit mobilized organizations, businesses, philanthropists inside and outside the province... to support 6,348,688,000 VND, along with the contribution of thousands of working days of officers and soldiers of the units, to build and hand over to the people for use 237 houses of gratitude (each house worth from 45 to 60 million VND), 9 civil works (each work from 100 to 150 million VND); mobilized officers and soldiers in the provincial Border Guard and businesses to donate more than 2 billion VND to buy gifts for people in border areas on the occasion of the annual Lunar New Year. Coordinated with sectors to effectively implement coordination programs such as; Eradicating illiteracy, universalizing primary education, disseminating border law education to students of secondary schools in border communes, the program to build cultural highlights on the border, the military-civilian medical combination program... In the past 10 years, the Provincial Border Guard has been assigned to be the investor and implemented on schedule, ensuring the quality of more than 25 socio-economic development projects associated with national security and defense in border areas with a total investment of up to hundreds of billions of VND, contributing to improving the material and spiritual life of the army and people in border communes, constantly consolidating the people's hearts and minds, and the people's border defense is increasingly solid.
PV:To continue promoting the glorious tradition of the People's Armed Forces Heroic Unit, what tasks should the Nghe An Border Guard focus on in the coming time, comrade?
Comrade Dinh Ngoc Van:In the coming time, the task of protecting the sovereignty and security of the border and sea areas and building a strong and comprehensive unit will become increasingly difficult. To promote the glorious tradition of the unit that was twice awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the Party and the State, the Nghe An Border Guard will focus on performing well the following key tasks:
Firstly, thoroughly grasp and concretize the resolutions, guiding ideology of the Party, the State and the superiors on building, managing and firmly protecting the independence and sovereignty, maintaining security and order on the two borders; doing well the work of border diplomacy, proactively grasping and promptly and effectively resolving situations occurring on the two borders of the province, not allowing hot spots to occur. At the same time, actively and proactively participate in building and consolidating the grassroots political system, developing the economy - culture - society, consolidating security and national defense.
Second, comprehensively innovate and improve the quality and effectiveness of Border Guard work measures; forecast and grasp the situation, have appropriate countermeasures to defeat all sabotage plots of hostile forces; proactively fight and effectively prevent all types of crimes, especially drug crimes.
Third, build the Nghe An Border Guard Party Committee to be strong in politics, ideology and organization; focus on consolidating and improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of grassroots party organizations and the quality of cadres and party members.
Fourth, maintain internal solidarity, military-civilian solidarity; advise and closely coordinate with other forces in performing political tasks; build Nghe An Border Guard to be strong, disciplined and gradually modernized, capable of excellently completing the task of protecting the sovereignty and security of the border and sea in all situations.
PV:Thank you, comrade!
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