The outcomes of this model were announced at a teleconference held on October 27 by the Vietnam Coast Guard Command to review the model under the chair of the command’s Political Commissar, Lieutenant General Hoang Van Dong.
The model aimed to support fishermen with fishing safely in line with law and protecting national sovereignty over seas and islands; to improve efficiency of the Coast Guard force’s mass mobilization work in the new period; to build strong political bases and island communes and develop local socio-economy.
Lieutenant General Hoang Van Dong chairing the teleconference
Under the model, fishermen have been provided with the content of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1982), the Vietnamese Law on the Sea 2012, the Law of the Sea of regional countries with the shared waters with Vietnam, the Law on Fisheries, and other necessary laws as well as the Party’s and State’s policies to encourage fishermen to go fishing offshore and settle on islands.
Since early this year, the coast guard force has implemented information dissemination courses for 4,500 cadres and people, 3,000 students, delivered thousands of leaflets on what fishermen should know while going fishing at sea and 200 handbooks to fishermen.
The force has called for financial support for fishermen from agencies, organizations and businesses. Accordingly, 489 policy beneficiary families, poor fishermen have received a total of VND 510 million, 165 poor students with good academic records were supported with VND 114 million in total. Besides, the force has announced the life-time care-taking for a Vietnamese heroic mother and fostered 18 poor students with good academic records till they reach the age of 18 with VND 500,000 per month.
It has also presented 700 national flags, 340 lifebuoys, 60 medicine chests and other gifts to fishermen while giving them free health checkups and medicines.
Moreover, the force has instructed fishermen on how to give first aid to drowning people, provided students with general view on national seas and islands, local traditions, and organized artistic exchanges with fishermen and paid homage to fallen soldiers at war cemeteries in island districts and communes.
At the conference, delegates drew lessons from the model and mapped out orientations to better the implementation of such a model in subsequent years.
On the occasion, the Vietnam Coast Guard Command presented merit certificates to ten groups and seven individuals with outstanding achievements in carrying out the model.
Translated by Mai Huong