PANO - Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Thanh Cung, Deputy Defence Minister and Head of the Steering Board 1389 under the Ministry of National Defence, on May 26th chaired a meeting to review the five-month implementation of the board's 2015 national program.

Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Thanh Cung addresses the ceremony

At the meeting, results in preventing crime, corruption, smugglings and trade frauds as well as practising thrift against extravagance were presented.

Accordingly, relevant units have detected over a thousand cases of violations, contributing over VND 100 billion to the national budget. Besides, they have worked with local authorities to hold thousands of talks for hundreds of thousands of people, contributing to maintaining security and social safety.

Delegates also agreed that the steering board should promote their staff rotation, supervising activities and information exchanges among constituent units, and enhance cooperation with the neighbouring countries' forces to fight crime, contributing to building a peaceful and friendly shared borderline, and conducting search and rescue missions.

Translated by Anh Tien