After many effective and comprehensive action programmes such as “March Border Month”, “Lighting up the Border”, etc., the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has continued to implement a long-term, synchronous solution with the participation of many forces towards the Fatherland’s border.

Investment in the border areas of the Southeast region has great significance in the socio-economic development strategy, associated with ensuring national defence and security of the region.

A ceremony was held in Laos’s Savannakhet province on September 29 to wrap up the fifth Vietnam-Laos People Friendship Festival and celebrate the Vietnam-Laos, Laos-Vietnam Friendship and Solidarity Year, the 60th founding anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 45th of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between the two countries.