Coordinate to firmly protect national sovereignty and security

On July 6, in Hanoi, an online conference was held between the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of National Defense to implement Decree No. 77 of the Prime Minister on coordination between the two ministries in performing the task of protecting national security (ANQG), maintaining social order and safety (TTATXH) and national defense tasks in the first six months of 2012. Party Central Committee members: Senior Lieutenant General Dang Van Hieu, Permanent Deputy Minister of Public Security; Senior Lieutenant General Do Ba Ty, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), Deputy Minister of National Defense co-chaired the conference.

In recent times, the People's Public Security Forces (PPP) and the People's Army have continued to closely coordinate and effectively implement the Prime Minister's Decree on Coordination Regulations, contributing to firmly protecting national security and maintaining social order and safety in the new situation. The two forces have organized thousands of patrols, controls, anti-smuggling and anti-criminal activities across the border; mobilized villages, hamlets, and hamlets with thousands of households to register to participate in self-management of border lines and border markers. The professional forces of the Ministry of Public Security have coordinated with the Border Guard Command to investigate and solve 46 cases of trafficking in women and children, arrested 54 subjects, rescued 54 victims; dismantled drug trafficking and transportation rings in border areas; discovered 93 cases, arrested 109 subjects, seized 31 heroin cakes, destroyed many hectares of opium poppy plants...

Speaking at the Conference, Senior Lieutenant General Dang Van Hieu and Senior Lieutenant General Do Ba Ty praised the achievements and results that the Public Security and People's Army forces have achieved in the past time. The two sides emphasized that in the coming time, the two forces need to closely coordinate in the struggle to prevent plots and sabotage activities of hostile forces, protect the Party, protect the State and the people; seriously and effectively organize the implementation of the Prime Minister's Decree; coordinate to review and supplement plans and solutions to ensure security and safety for important political events and foreign affairs activities of the country; strengthen mass mobilization work, build a people's security posture associated with the national defense posture, maintain political stability, social order and safety, contributing to the socio-economic development of the country, and successfully complete the tasks of 2012.

According to (Nhandan.com.vn)-LT