Forms and measures for managing and protecting national borders
Mr. Va Ba Ca, residing in Ky Son district, asked: What is the national border? How are the measures and forms of managing and protecting the national border regulated?
Reply:
-According to Article 1 of the 2023 Law on National Borders, the national border of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the line and vertical plane along that line to determine the limits of the mainland territory, islands, archipelagos including Hoang Sa archipelago and Truong Sa archipelago, sea areas, underground, and airspace of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- Article 19 of the 2020 Law on Vietnam Border Guard stipulates the forms of management and protection of national borders, including:
+ Regular border management and protection are applied in cases where the situation of sovereignty, territory, security, order and social safety in the border area is stable;
+ Enhanced border management and protection is applied when important political, economic, cultural and social events take place in border areas, border gates, and on both sides of the border; the security, order and social safety situation in some areas in the border area is complicated; the peripheral areas and border areas are conducting military, security and order exercises; natural disasters, catastrophes, epidemics, rescue and relief operations occur or criminal pursuit activities are being conducted where the criminals may cross the border; when the border management and protection forces of the countries sharing the border request it;
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+ Border management and protection in a state of national defense emergency, martial law, curfew, or war are implemented in accordance with the provisions of the law on national defense.
- Measures to manage and protect national borders stipulated in Article 20 of the Vietnam Border Law include:
+Mass mobilization;
+Law;
+Diplomacy;
+ Economy;
+Science and technology;
+Business;
+ Armed.
