Vietnamese, Lao armies enhance ties in internal political protection
Lt. Gen. Tran Quang Phuong, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), received Maj. Gen. Bunlieng Sengphachan, head of the internal protection division under the General Department of Politics of the Lao People’s Army, in Hanoi on August 13.
Lt. Gen. Tran Quang Phuong (R), Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army, and Maj. Gen. Bunlieng Sengphachan, head of the internal protection division under the General Department of Politics of the Lao People’s Army, at the meeting in Hanoi on August 13 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –Lt. Gen. Tran Quang Phuong, Deputy Director of the General Department ofPolitics of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), received Maj. Gen. Bunlieng Sengphachan,head of the internal protection division under the General Department ofPolitics of the Lao People’s Army, in Hanoi on August 13.
The Lao officer, who is on a working visit toVietnam, informed his host about the outcomes of his delegation’s meetings withthe army security protection department of the VPA’s General Department ofPolitics and the criminal investigation department of the Vietnamese Ministryof National Defence.
He noted that at those meetings, the two sidesshared experience to promote the fight against activities threatening security,politics and the special friendship between the two countries and the twoarmies.
For his part, Phuong underlined the importanceof internal political protection along with the examination and supervision ofthoughts and political virtue in the army, particularly amidst hostile forces’increased sabotage against the two countries’ revolutions and specialfriendship.
He asked the Vietnamese army security protectiondepartment and criminal investigation department and the Lao internalprotection division to increase the exchange of delegations and information toimprove their counseling given to leaders of the two defence ministries and thetwo general department of politics so as to fight back plots, ruses andsabotage activities of hostile forces and minimise law violations and crime,thus firmly maintaining the discipline and combatant strength of each country’military.
Phuong affirmed that leaders of the VPA’sGeneral Department of Politics always support and create favourable conditionsfor the agencies to strengthen cooperation and fulfill their duties, therebyhelping to intensify relations between the two countries and the twoarmies.-VNA
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Lt. Gen. Tran Quang Phuong (R), Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army, and Maj. Gen. Bunlieng Sengphachan, head of the internal protection division under the General Department of Politics of the Lao People’s Army, at the meeting in Hanoi on August 13 (Photo: VNA) 
