Mission departs for Truong Sa Islands and DK1 platforms

Departing from the port of Brigade 125 under Naval Region 2 on May 6, the mission will conduct meaningful activities, including color-raising ceremonies, visits to pagodas and troops and people working and living on islands of the Truong Sa Islands and DK1 platforms... The mission will also hold exchange programs with troops and people there.

The visit to the Truong Sa Islands and DK1 platforms aims to raise officials’ and people’s awareness of the national maritime sovereignty and the cause of national building and safeguarding in the current period.

Prior to the departure, the delegates offered incense to martyrs at the memorial dedicated to the heroic “no-number ships.”

Below are a number of images recorded at the seeing-off ceremony at Brigade 125 of Naval Region 2.

Delegates receive boarding passes.

The 10th mission heading towards the no-number ships’ memorial site

The no-number ships’ monument

Offering incense and paying tribute to martyrs at the monument

Troops of Brigade 125 bidding farewell to the delegates

Translated by Huu Duong