The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended and directed the Conference to review the Standing Committee of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee.

On the morning of December 22, the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee held a conference to review the collective and individual performance of the Party Committee Standing Committee in 2022. Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended and directed the conference. Comrade Colonel Le Nhu Cuong - Party Committee Secretary chaired the conference.

Overview of the collective review conference of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee. Photo: Pham Bang

PROTECTING TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY AND BORDER SECURITY

In 2022, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee has proposed many policies and solutions to effectively lead and direct the tasks of managing and protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security, building strong border areas, building a comprehensively strong Border Guard, and successfully completing all assigned tasks.

In particular, the Provincial Border Guard has actively and proactively participated in natural disaster prevention and control, search and rescue; effectively fought against all types of crimes, especially drug crimes; and effectively led and directed the implementation of border diplomacy and people's diplomacy.

Colonel Le Nhu Cuong - Secretary of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee presented a report on the collective review of the Party Committee Standing Committee. Photo: Pham Bang

The Standing Committee of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee has strictly followed and implemented the principles of democratic centralism, collective leadership, and individual responsibility. It has led and directed the serious implementation of the Central Committee's Resolutions, Directives, and Conclusions on Party building and rectification; actively prevented and combated corruption and waste; fulfilled the exemplary responsibilities of cadres and Party members; and Party inspection, supervision, and discipline work has always been taken seriously and strictly implemented.

The Party Committee Standing Committee and the Command have proposed many policies and solutions, focusing on overcoming and correcting the limitations and shortcomings pointed out at the 2021 Self-criticism and Criticism Review Conference. The results have partly overcome the limitations and shortcomings pointed out and some contents are being focused on overcoming.

Colonel Nguyen Cong Luc - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Commander of the Provincial Border Guard Command spoke at the discussion. Photo: Pham Bang

At the conference, comrades in the Standing Committee of the Border Guard Party Committee focused on discussing and evaluating more fully the achieved results, clarifying the limitations and shortcomings. At the same time, they analyzed, commented and added to the directions and solutions to overcome the limitations and shortcomings of the collective pointed out, in conjunction with overcoming the shortcomings of each individual.

FIRM SOVEREIGNTY, PEACEFUL BORDER, PEACEFUL AREA, PEACEFUL PEOPLE

Speaking at the conference, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the preparation and organization of the review by the Standing Committee of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee; the opinions discussed at the conference were responsible and frank.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assessed that the context of 2022 is extremely difficult, at the beginning of the year, the Covid-19 epidemic broke out strongly, the world situation was complicated, and at the end of the year, there were natural disasters and floods. However, the results of socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security of the province were extremely positive.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee gave a speech at the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

Contributing to this result is the very important role of the Border Guard force, comrades have excellently completed the task, maintaining border stability, stabilizing the area, stabilizing the people, creating conditions to implement the goals and tasks of the province. In particular, the leadership and direction role of the Party Committee Standing Committee is very important, with a spirit of solidarity, consensus and high unity.

Analyzing and evaluating the results in depth, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that in the task of protecting sovereignty and border security, the Border Guard has performed well on both border lines: at sea and on land.

The Provincial Border Guard has proactively advised the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee on many important policies and measures. Border diplomacy has been well implemented. Crime prevention and control, especially drug crimes and smuggling crimes, has been well implemented. In this task, the Border Guard Party Committee has performed its duties excellently, ensuring the maintenance of sovereignty and keeping the border peaceful.

In the task of building a people's border defense and building border areas, the Provincial Border Guard has well implemented Directive 01 of the Prime Minister on organizing a movement for all people to participate in protecting territorial sovereignty and border security; promoting the role of village elders, hamlet chiefs, and prestigious people in propagating and mobilizing people to participate in protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security.

On behalf of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung acknowledged, congratulated and commended the achievements and results that the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee Standing Committee has led and directed. Photo: Pham Bang

The Provincial Border Guard has also effectively participated in the work of building and consolidating the grassroots political system; actively participated in socio-economic development, helping people in border areas eliminate hunger and reduce poverty; well performed the work of preventing, combating, overcoming the consequences of natural disasters, and searching and rescuing in the spirit of serving the people and compatriots.

Regarding the task of leading and directing the force building and Party building of the Provincial Border Guard, the Party Committee Standing Committee has paid attention to ensuring conditions for officers and soldiers to perform their tasks; combat readiness training, participation in the Provincial Defense Zone and Civil Defense exercises in 2022 achieved good results.

On behalf of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung acknowledged, congratulated and commended the achievements and results that the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee Standing Committee has led and directed the Provincial Border Guard force to excellently complete all tasks in 2022, summed up in 11 words: Firm sovereignty, peaceful borders, peaceful areas, peaceful people.

Provincial Border Guard forces participate in supporting people to overcome the consequences of natural disasters. Photo: Le Thach

Regarding the direction for 2023, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung said that this is a year predicted to have many difficulties, complicated and unpredictable developments. To complete the Resolution on socio-economic development tasks and the State budget estimate for 2022, an important requirement is to ensure national defense - security, order and social safety.

On that basis, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Standing Committee of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee to continue advising the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, and Provincial People's Committee on the work of protecting sovereignty, managing borders, ensuring security and order in border areas; advising on the 5-year review of the implementation of Resolution No. 33 of the Politburo; 2-year review of the implementation of Notice No. 80; Proactively develop a project to clear roads and clear border visibility; Summarize 10 years of implementing the Provincial People's Committee's Directive on the movement of twinning residential clusters, villages, etc.

Implement leadership and direction to firmly protect territorial sovereignty and border security; coordinate to effectively resolve issues related to religious and ethnic affairs; advise on the implementation of relevant contents on territorial border protection issues; pay attention to ending the situation of fishing vessels violating IUU fishing.

Border Guard Station at Nam Can International Border Gate patrols to protect the border. Photo: Le Thach

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also requested the Standing Committee of the Provincial Border Guard Party Committee to continue to lead, direct, grasp the situation, and effectively carry out the work of preventing and combating crimes, especially drug crimes, smuggling crimes, and trade fraud across the border, especially during the time before the Lunar New Year. Pay attention to improving the effectiveness of border diplomacy and people's diplomacy. In particular, pay attention to helping and supporting the Lao side in the difficult conditions of the neighboring country.

Continue to lead the implementation of building strong border areas, promote the role of Border Guard officers participating in Party Committees, People's Councils, People's Committees of districts and communes; help people develop the economy, reduce poverty, build many effective models, ensure peace for people and areas in border areas. Focus on building a clean and strong force and Party Committee; strictly maintain combat readiness in all situations, especially during the Lunar New Year.

On behalf of the provincial leaders, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee came to present flowers and congratulate the Provincial Border Guard Command. Photo: Pham Bang