Through border external affairs, Vietnamese border troops and border protection forces of the neighboring countries have joined hands to build and protect a peaceful border, contributing to cultivating and promoting traditional relations and cooperation among the countries. Moreover, the border guard force has paid much attention to conducting twinning activities between border posts along the shared borderline; organizing meetings to exchange and share information and situation developments in the border; closely coordinating with other forces to disseminate information among people in the two countries and encourage them to strictly observe treaties, agreements, and legal documents on border management and protection, illegal entry and exit control, and crime prevention, to name but a few.
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At the periodic meetings between Group 11 of Border Post of the Cao Bang provincial Border Guard Command and Son Vi Border Post of the Ha Giang provincial Border Guard Command (Vietnam) and Baise Border Management Unit of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China) |
These twinning activities have contributed to tightening the relations between border posts in the two countries, raising the efficiency of the coordination in settling common issues, and deepening the close ties between the border protection forces in Vietnam and countries sharing the borderline.
As the cooperation, solidarity and friendship between Vietnam and China, Laos, and Cambodia have been continuously consolidated and deepened in all fields, Vietnam’s border guards and border protection forces of neighboring countries have strictly implemented agreements, memorandums of understanding, and regulations on the coordination in border law enforcement in border areas and at border gates. Typically, the Vietnamese border troops have actively conducted bilateral patrols with border management and protection forces of countries sharing the borderline while coordinating with their functional forces to exchange information and effectively carry out plans for fighting and preventing plots and activities of hostile forces and different types of crimes, achieving encouraging results.
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At the twinning ceremony between Dan Hoa border commune in Minh Hoa district, Quang Binh province (Vietnam) and a residential cluster in Bualapha district, Khammouane province (Laos) |
Along with setting up twinning relations among border posts, the Vietnam Border Guard Command has boosted twinning activities between residential clusters in Vietnam and neighboring countries, contributing to raising the local people’s awareness and responsibility in protecting national sovereignty, promoting local socio-economic development, and consolidating solidarity and friendship between people in both sides of the shared borderline.
After 10-year implementation of the twinning relations among border posts, the armed forces and residential clusters in the shared borderline, border external affairs and people-to-people diplomacy have been expanded in both forms and contents, thereby building a common border of peace, friendship, and cooperation for mutual development on the basis of respecting each other’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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Vietnam’s Kon Tum border guards conduct a bilateral patrol with the Cambodian border protection force. |
These models demonstrate the creativity of the Vietnamese border guard force in border external affairs in the new situation, contributing to reinforcing and gradually creating high consensus in intensifying cooperation in many fields between Vietnam and neighboring countries; dealing with arising issues in borderline in a timely manner; and fostering friendship, comprehensive cooperation, and sustainable development among them.
Source: baobienphong
Translated by Quynh Oanh