Lieutenant General Nguyen Doan Anh, Commander of Military Region 4, and Colonel Khamnho Linsomphou, Commander of Division 4 under the Lao People's Armed Forces, head of the Laos delegation, co-chaired the conference.
The conference reviewed the outcomes of cooperation activities last year and in the first six months of this year. Delegates at the conference agreed that Military Region 4 cooperated closely with Lao units and localities in building political grassroots-level bases, conducted military, political, logistical and technical cooperation activities with the Lao side, implemented various projects in Laos, and effectively searched and repatriated remains of fallen Vietnamese soldiers from Laos.
Meanwhile, the two sides fostered education about the tradition of the long-standing relationship between Vietnam and Laos for troops and raise their awareness of schemes of hostile forces, so as to combat them in a timely manner.
The Vietnamese and Lao units also coordinated closely with each other to follow situational developments in areas along the shared borderline to ensure a stable order and security situation for social-economic development of each country.
Over the past time, Vietnam's Military Region 4 has assisted Lao side in building 7 groups of hamlets, trained 250 Lao military officers and provided free health checkups and medicines to 5,000 Lao people. Meanwhile, the Lao units helped Military Region 4 in searching, collecting and repatriating 184 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts fallen in Laos.
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The two sides signed the minutes of the meeting |
The results of cooperation between Military Region 4 and Laos military units have contributed to maintaining the political security of each country, and social order and safety on the shared borderline.
At the conference, the two sides signed an agreement on implementing contents of the cooperation plans so as to build a Vietnam-Laos borderline of peace, friendship, stability and development.
Translated by Song Anh