Implementing the Agreement and Protocol on Vietnam - Laos border management
(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of February 9, authorized by the Provincial People's Committee, the Department of Foreign Affairs coordinated with the National Border Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to organize a conference to disseminate and implement the Agreement on border management regulations, land border gates and the Protocol on border lines and border markers between Vietnam and Laos.
Attending the conference were comrade Thai Xuan Dung - Deputy Head of the National Border Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam.
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| Overview of the conference. Photo: Phuong Thuy |
At the conference, delegates were informed of 57 articles and 10 chapters of the Agreement on border management regulations and border gates on land between Vietnam and Laos, including contents such as: management, maintenance and protection of the border; management and use of border waters; management of production and construction activities in border areas; border entry and exit and residence in border areas; border gates and border gate management; settlement of border events; mechanism for organizing the implementation of the agreement...
Delegates were also informed of 15 articles of the Protocol on the border line and border markers between Vietnam and Laos, effective from September 5, 2017, including the following contents: general regulations on the border line between the two countries; description of the location of border markers, markers and direction of the border line; inspection, protection and management of the border line, border markers and markers...
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| Deputy Head of the National Border CommitteeThai Xuan Dung thoroughly grasped the Agreement on the Regulations on Border Management and Border Gates on Land between Vietnam and Laos and the Protocol on the Border Line and Border Markers between Vietnam and Laos. Photo: Phuong Thuy |
On this occasion, the Department of Foreign Affairs also deployed Plan 336/KH-UBND.NC of the Provincial People's Committee on implementing the above two legal documents with the desire to continuously consolidate and develop the friendship, tradition, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos on the basis of respecting each other's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, equality, cooperation for mutual benefit and solidarity to help each other for a peaceful, stable, friendly, cooperative and sustainable development border.
The Vietnam - Laos border area has an extremely important strategic position for the defense, security and socio-economy of the two countries.
Nghe An province alone has a border adjacent to 3 provinces of Xieng Khouang, Bolikhamxay and Hua Phan of Lao PDR with a length of 419.5 km.
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| Activities to increase the density of border markers between Vietnam and Laos. Photo: Document |
The terrain of the Vietnam - Laos border area is relatively diverse and complex. In recent years, with the investment of the Government, ministries and branches, the economic, cultural and social infrastructure in the Vietnam - Laos border area in general and the section through Nghe An province in particular has been continuously improved, the implementation of legal documents on the Vietnam - Laos border has been organized effectively.
