China, Vietnam hold 7th border defense friendship exchange

BEIJING, April 23 — The seventh China-Vietnam Border Protection Friendship Trade was held on April 23 in Longzhou County of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Area, Quang Hoa County of Vietnam’s Cao Bang Province, and related port areas. Chinese language State Councilor and Protection Minister Normal Wei Fenghe and Vietnamese Protection Minister Normal Phan Van Giang led delegations to take part within the occasion respectively.

Normal Wei Fenghe stated that Chinese language President Xi Jinping, additionally normal secretary of the Communist Get together of China (CPC) Central Committee, and Nguyen Phu Trong, normal secretary of the Communist Get together of Vietnam Central Committee , have been steering the China-Vietnam relations for sound growth. Towards the backdrop of the pandemic, the 2 sides have held border protection friendship exchanges for 2 consecutive years, demonstrating the profound friendship of “comrades and brothers” of the 2 nations and sustaining the nice momentum of pleasant exchanges between the 2 militaries.

Normal Wei Fenghe identified that the 2 militaries ought to keep high-level strategic communication, strengthen maritime safety cooperation, promote exchanges in skilled fields and strengthen multilateral coordination. Either side ought to enhance the border protection cooperation mechanism, crack down on cross-border crimes, strengthen pandemic prevention and management, and collectively safeguard peace and tranquility alongside the China-Vietnam border. The 2 militaries must also correctly deal with maritime disputes, guard in opposition to interference and sabotage by nations outdoors the area, advance cooperation within the South China Sea, and collectively uphold peace and stability within the South China Sea, Normal Wei added.

Normal Phan Van Giang thanked China for offering Vietnam with COVID-19 vaccine help and wished the twentieth CPC Nationwide Congress successful. He stated that growing Vietnam-China relations is a diplomatic precedence of Vietnam and the protection cooperation is a vital pillar of Vietnam-China complete strategic cooperative partnership .

He added that Vietnam is prepared to deepen sensible cooperation with China in border protection cooperation, navy political work, navy drugs, and so forth, and make new contributions to sustaining border peace and stability and selling bilateral relations.

The 2 sides additionally exchanged views on the worldwide and regional safety state of affairs and the state of affairs in Ukraine.

Throughout the occasion, either side added paint to the inscriptions of a boundary monument No. 943 (1) erected alongside the China-Vietnam border, planted friendship bushes and visited a neighborhood main faculty in Vietnam.

The image reveals a scene of the border protection friendship alternate between the 2 sides on April 23, 2022. (Photograph by Li Xiaowei)


The image reveals a gaggle picture of the delegations of the 2 sides on April 23, 2022. (Photograph by Li Xiaowei)


Protection ministers of China and Vietnam go to the Ta Lung Township’s main faculty in Vietnam on April 23, 2022. (Photograph by Li Xiaowei)