Policies and law dissemination enhanced in Vietnam - Laos border area

Senior Colonel Ngo Xuan Thuong, Deputy Political Commissar of the Quang Tri provincial Border Guard Command has a talk with village elders.

During the event, village elders and patriarchs in Huong Hoa and Dakrong districts were updated with information related to security and order situations, ethnic and religious issues in Vietnam - Laos border areas, especially the Party’s policies and the rights and responsibilities of village elders and patriarchs, among others, and building the great national unity bloc of ethnic minority groups of the two countries along the shared borderline.

Meanwhile, the organizing panel popularized the Vietnam Border Guard Law, underlining the role of village elders and patriarchs in encouraging local people to engage in the fight against different kinds of crimes, as well as building and developing the friendship between the two countries’ people in border areas.

Delegates at the event

Over the past years, village elders and patriarchs have effectively applied customs and traditions to deal with complex issues arising in social life, implemented measures to popularize the Party’s policies and guidelines and the State’s law among local people, and mobilized people to closely work with the border guard force to protect national border.

Source: baobienphong

Translated by Quynh Oanh