The People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Binh held a meeting on August 17 to review the implementation of the Ordinance on the Border Guard over the last two decades.
Col. Le Van Phuc, head of the border gate department of the Border Guard High Command, speaks at the meeting to review Quang Binh's implementation of the Ordinance on the Border Guard (Photo: VNA)
Quang Binh (VNA) – The People’sCommittee of the central province of Quang Binh held a meeting on August 17 toreview the implementation of the Ordinance on the Border Guard over the lasttwo decades.
Quang Binh has nine communes of five districtslocated along the 201.8 km-long land border with Laos. Meanwhile, its116km-long coastline is home to 20 communes and wards of six districts, onetown and one city.
Since the Ordinance on the Border Guard wasissued in 1997, the province’s border guard force has handled entry-exitprocedures for nearly 18 million people, over 5.2 million vehicles, and 8,600ships with some 134,400 crew members.
They have dealt with more than 3,000 boats andvessels with violations and 504 foreign fishing boats illegally enteringVietnam’s sea areas. Local border guards have also uncovered 17 drugtrafficking rings, handled thousands of drug dealers, and seized over 200heroin bricks, 94kg of synthetic drug and 2,530kg of methamphetamine.
Col. Le Van Phuc, head of the border gatedepartment of the Border Guard High Command, praised Quang Binh’s efforts andachievements in carrying out the ordinance over the past 20 years.
He asked the province to improve statemanagement of the building, management and protection of national sovereigntyand border security. Authorities should also better combine socio-economicdevelopment tasks with defence-security consolidation duties and capitalise onthe public’s support for the work.
Addressing the meeting, Chairman of theprovincial People’s Committee Nguyen Huu Hoai proposed the Party, State,National Assembly, Government and Ministry of National Defence enhance theirdirect and comprehensive leadership of national sovereignty and border securityprotection.
He also called for a strategy on national borderprotection to be promulgated soon, the legal system on border management andthe border guard force to be fine-tuned, and a law on the border guard to bebuilt to replace the existing ordinance.
Hoai also suggested more actions to promote thematerial and spiritual lives of residents in remote, disadvantaged and ethnicminority areas, while increasing benefits for border guards who have to performduties in difficult conditions.-VNA
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Col. Le Van Phuc, head of the border gate department of the Border Guard High Command, speaks at the meeting to review Quang Binh's implementation of the Ordinance on the Border Guard (Photo: VNA) 
