The Vietnamese delegation was welcomed at border marker 790 of Phoukue Border Gate (Attapeu) - Bo Y International Border Gate (Kon Tum) by deputy head of the Lao Border Guard Department.
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Maj. Gen. Hoang Huu Chien presents gifts to Phoukue village Primary School. |
Construction of friendship
The Border Working Station project to present to Laos’ Border Company 541 is an important project and a special gift from the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense (MND) to the Lao People’s Army in the framework of the first aforementioned exchange. This VND 15 billion facility was built from May to November 2023.
This is one of the facilities that the Vietnamese MND has presented to the Lao counterpart to express its willingness to stand side-by-side with the Lao People’s Army in general and the Lao border management and protection force in particular.
The operation of this facility will help improve the life of Lao troops and confirm the coordination ties between the two countries’ border management and protection forces.
Ngo Manh Hung, Director of Company 206, the project’s constructor, said that despite rainy season on Laos, the company tried their best to complete it as planned with good quality.
The Officer Commanding of Border Company 541 spoke highly of the significant gift from the Vietnamese MND. “We treasure and thank the Vietnamese MND for this gift. It is a practical facility to facilitate our activity and for the three countries’ border management and protection forces to meet and exchange information,” he said.
At the handover ceremony, Major General Siphan Phoutthavong, Director of the Laos’ Border Guard Department, highly praised the construction and expressed the hope to receive more constructions from Vietnam. He wished the two border protection forces to promote their good relationship and continue to build and defense a borderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and development.
Thanks from Laos
As one of activities held before the official start of the first Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia border defense friendship exchange in Vietnamese province of Kon Tum, Military Hospital 87 under the General Department of Logistics of the Vietnam MND and military medical staff from Laos and Kon Tum provincial Border Guard Command jointly held a free health check-up and medicine-giving program for people in Phoukue village, Phouvong border district.
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Presenting medicines to Lao people |
Hundreds of local people came to have their health checked. Eyeing Vietnamese military doctors checking her six-year-old son’s health, Vienkham Xivakhan shared that her child's health had never been examined since his birth. At the program, the doctor diagnosed that her son suffers from calcium deficiency, anemia and malnutrition and gave him medicines. “Thank you Vietnamese border guards,” she said.
Senior Colonel Le Van Dong, Deputy Director of the Department of Military Medicines under the General Department of Logistics, said that on December 5 morning, more than 200 Lao people, mainly women, children, and the elderly, were provided with health check. Each of them was presented a bag of medicines, each valued at VND 400,000.
Phoukue villagers came and returned home with smiles in their eyes and faces.
In a visit to Phoukue Primary School, the Vietnamese delegation was greeted by hundreds of students waving Vietnamese and Lao flags.
Addressing the visit, Major General Hoang Huu Chien handed over TV sets, computers, school supplies to the school.
A representative from the school said that these practical gifts would help the school’s teachers and students have access to information technology. These also demonstrated the solidarity, friendship, and faithfulness between Vietnam and Laos in general and the Vietnamese border guard force and the Lao people in particular. “Thank you Vietnam,” she said.
Source: baobienphong
Translated by Mai Huong