The conference saw representatives from relevant departments under the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the police departments of the provinces sharing border with Laos.
In his opening speech, Deputy Minister Pham The Tung summarized the order and security situation along the Vietnam-Laos borderline, and highlighted the results of the work of ensuring order and security on the Vietnam - Laos borderline in recent times.
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| Deputy Minister Pham The Tung chairs conference. |
During the discussion session, delegates clarified the remaining difficulties in ensuring order and security along the shared borderline, and proposed approaches to do the work better in the coming time.
Concluding the conference, the Deputy Minister acknowledged and commended the relevant under-ministerial departments and provincial-level police units for their achievements in the past time, saying that ensuring order and security along the shared borderline had contributed to building a peaceful, friendly, cooperative and developed Vietnam - Laos border.
The Deputy Minister requested all involved under-ministerial departments and provincial-level police units to thoroughly grasp and effectively implement the task of ensuring security on the Vietnam - Laos border, preventing, detecting and handling negative factors affecting border early and from afar with a focus on non-traditional security issues.
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| Delegates join group photo. |
Police units should always keep in mind the Party’s viewpoint of "Helping friends is helping ourselves" so as to strengthen their cooperation with relevant Lao forces to ensuring border security.
Meanwhile, the police units of localities bordering Laos should strengthen the grassroots-level security posture, grasp the situation of each resident and each household, and advise local Party committees and authorities to firmly consolidate the political system in border areas.
At the same time, they should attach importance to the policies on ethnicity, religion, socio-economic development and social security while mobilizing all residents and mass organization to protect national security on the border, and raising the vigilance of the local people, especially ethnic minorities, about plots, methods and tricks to incite sabotage by hostile forces, reactionaries, and bad elements.
Relevant forces should also coordinate closely with the police of the Lao localities across the border in patrolling the borderline, protecting border markers, controlling illegal border-crossings and free migration, and promoting the establishment of communication channels between the police forces of Vietnamese and Lao border communes.