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Senior Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang visits Brigade 171 under Naval Region 2. |
Accordingly, in the first four months of this year, Naval Region 2 thoroughly grasped its missions and successfully fulfilled all military and defense missions. The region has also made good preparations for its third Party Congress, effectively carried out Party and political work, ensured logistics and technology for other missions, and firmly safeguarded national sovereignty over the seas, islands, and continental shelf.
Meanwhile, since the beginning of this year, Coast Guard Region 3 has effectively implemented different missions, including building combat readiness plans, strictly maintaining combat readiness duty and closely working with other forces to embrace situational developments.
In recent months, the Ba Ria–Vung Tau provincial Military Command and Border Guard Command have accomplished all military, defense, and border missions. The provincial armed force’s units have coordinated with local agencies and units to follow local situations closely and make timely recommendations for the provincial Party Committee and People’s Committee to work out solutions, so as to maintain political security and public order. They adjusted their training programs in line with the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic and made thorough preparations for the Party Congress at all levels.
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Senior Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang inspects Ship 2011 of Coast Guard Region 3. |
During the visit, General Giang praised the units for embracing their missions and effectively carrying out assigned missions. He emphasized that, despite challenges caused by the coronavirus, Naval Region 2, Coast Guard Region 3, and Ba Ria-Vung Tau province’s military units have maintained high combat readiness.
Regarding missions in the near future, he asked the units to carry out training and combat readiness tasks effectively, to protect national sovereignty over designated seas and islands, and to foster cooperation with other local forces in conducting exercises and other tasks and practicing possible scenarios. They were also asked to hold vigilance, to take measures to prevent COVID-19 from spreading in their units, to promote information dissemination, and help local people overcome difficulties caused by the pandemic.
On the same day, General Giang attended the Naval Region 2 Command’s ceremony at Military Port of Brigade 171 in Vung Tau City to hand over 30 troubled fishermen to the provincial Border Guard Command and localities.
At the event, General Giang and the Navy’s leadership presented gifts and encouraged the troubled fishermen to overcome difficulties.
Earlier, trawler QNa 95654 TS with 30 fishermen on board encountered bad weather and sank on April 26 while fishing at sea. Having been saved by troops of the DK1/11 platform on April 27, all the fishermen from Binh Minh commune, Thanh Binh district of Quang Nam Province had their health checked by the platform’s medical personnel and were given clothes and accommodation.
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The Chief of the General Staff encourages fishermen. |
The Naval Region 2 Command sent the ship Truong Sa 04 to take the troubled fishermen ashore and handed them over to the provincial Border Guard Command.
At the ceremony, Le Xuan Toi, Binh Minh commune’s Deputy Chairman, deeply thanked troops of DK1/11 platform, leaders of Naval Region 2 Command for saving and taking the troubled fishermen ashore.
Translated by Tran Hoai