Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Pham The Tung chaired the meeting.
The event was attended by representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its Consular Department and the Border Guard Command under the Ministry of National Defense.
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| Delegates attend the meeting. |
In his opening remarks, Deputy Minister Pham The Tung stated that the MPS convened the meeting to comprehensively assess the current situation and outcomes of efforts to combat illegal entry and exit, as well as to develop effective approaches to fulfill related tasks in the time ahead.
Under the Deputy Minister’s chairmanship, delegates from the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and public security units nationwide discussed the current situation, highlighted achievements, identified existing challenges, and proposed approaches to efficiently prevent and combat illegal entry and exit in the coming period.
Concluding the meeting, Deputy Minister Pham The Tung sincerely thanked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense for their close collaboration with the MPS in preventing and combating illegal entry and exit in the past time.
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| Deputy Minister Pham The Tung addresses the meeting. |
He expressed his hope that they would continue to work closely with the MPS to strengthen patrols and inspections along borders, checkpoints and seaports, so as to prevent foreign nationals from illegally entering the country at an early stage and from outside the national territory.
The Deputy Minister requested that public security units and agencies should reach consensus on the perception of the work, renovate their mindsets on the work and innovate their approaches to prevent and combat illegal entry and exit in the current context.
He called on relevant forces to effectively combine administrative and professional measures with scientific and technical applications in grasping the situation and performing their tasks, as well as to advise their superiors to amend legal loopholes, contributing to effectively controlling illegal entry and exit while creating most favorable conditions for both Vietnamese citizens and foreign expats to legally enter and exit the country.
Deputy Minister Pham The Tung also directed the Public Security Forces to launch campaigns against illegal entry and exit nationwide, focusing on identifying, investigating and strictly handling individuals or networks involved in illegal immigration and migration, contributing to maintaining a stable secure peaceful environment for national development and defence in the new era.