Deputy Minister of National Defense of the Lao People's Army visits and works at Military Region 4

(Baonghean.vn) - During his visit and work in Vietnam, on the afternoon of July 24, Lieutenant General Vi Lay La Kham Phong - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of National Defense, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Lao People's Army visited and worked with the Command of Military Region 4.

Major General Nguyen Tan Cuong - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Central Military Commission, Commander of the Military Region; Lieutenant General Vo Van Viet, Secretary of the Party Committee, Political Commissar of the Military Region received and worked with the delegation.

At the meeting, the Commander of Military Region 4 informed the Deputy Minister of National Defense, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Lao People's Army about the basic contents of the local situation; results of the implementation of military and defense tasks and military foreign affairs activities in the first 6 months of 2016.

Overview of the working session.

Accordingly, in the past time, the Party Committee and Command of Military Region 4 have directed units and localities in the 6 provinces of the Military Region to closely coordinate with units and localities of Laos that share the border to effectively implement the contents and programs signed to coordinate the implementation of military and defense tasks.

Notably, units of Military Region 4 have helped the Lao People's Army organize well the training of cadres; build regularity; carry out maintenance and repair of weapons and technical equipment; and cooperate to help the Party build political bases; build and transfer economic development models, livestock and crop cultivation in 7 clusters of villages in 3 provinces of Xay Xom Bun, Bo Ly Kham Xay and Xieng Khouang.

At the same time, the Special Working Group of the Lao Government and the Lao ethnic people also actively coordinated and helped the Military Region's martyrs' remains collection teams to effectively carry out their tasks on the neighboring land. In the dry season of 2015 - 2016, 6 collection teams of Military Region 4 searched, excavated, and brought back to Vietnam 168 graves of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who died in Laos.

The Military Region Command presented the logo of Military Region 4 to the Deputy Minister of National Defense and Director of the General Department of Politics of the Lao People's Army.

The Deputy Minister of National Defense, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Lao People's Army acknowledged and highly appreciated the active and effective cooperation and assistance of Military Region 4 to the Lao People's Army. In the coming time, the Lao Ministry of National Defense will continue to direct the forces to strengthen coordination and cooperation with the forces of the Military Region to continue to improve the quality of experience exchange, training and fostering of military officers; effectively implement technical work; build welfare works and develop the economy. In particular, the Ministry of National Defense and the Lao Special Working Group will strengthen the direction of the Lao People's Army's forces to closely coordinate with the collection teams of the Military Region to deploy forces to conduct field surveys, provide information and organize the search for the graves of Vietnamese martyrs remaining in Laos to bring them back to the country most effectively.

Tran Dung