Lieutenant General Hoang Van Dong, Political Commissar of the Vietnam Coast Guard Command, and Nguyen Xuan Ky, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Council, co-chaired the event.
During the program, the two sides are expected to conduct information dissemination activities, join hands in building local political systems at the grassroots level, protect natural environment and promote living standards for local people in coastal areas. The program also aims to support fishermen in doing business, safeguard the national maritime sovereignty, and establish a mechanism to mobilize forces, vehicles and ships to protect the national sovereignty over seas and islands when requested.
Both sides will also regularly inform each other of order and security situations in their individual country, provide information related to the national seas and islands, protect the country’s territorial integrity, ensure the serious implementation of Vietnam’s laws and international treaties to which Vietnam is a member, fight against crimes and trade fraud, train fishermen with safety regulations at sea, carry out search and rescue missions, and offer free health checkups and medicines to fishermen.
Meanwhile, the Vietnam Coast Guard’s Party Committee and the Quang Ninh provincial Party Committee assigned their subordinate units, Coast Guard Region 1 and the Board for Mass Mobilization, to directly roll out the program. Funding for the annual operation of the joint program will be covered by Coast Guard Region 1 in combination with resources raised by sponsors.
At the end of the meeting, representatives of the two sides signed an agreement for the joint program.
On this occasion, Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Son, Chief of the Vietnam Coast Guard Command, handed over 200 gifts to local fishermen. Reportedly, Quang Ninh is the tenth province to ink such program with the force.
Translated by Minh Anh