(VOVworld) – The border station of the Le Thanh International Border Crossing is in charge of safeguarding 18 kilometers of national border in Duc Co and Ia Grai district of Gia Lai province, which borders Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province. Over the years, the station has defended Vietnam’s sovereignty and promoted its external relations.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung and PM Hun Sen at the ceremony to inaugurate the border marker No.30 and the road connecting two checkpoints of the Le Thanh-O Za Dao international border gate in in Duc Co district, Gia Lai province on December 26th, 2015.

At 11 a.m. when school finishes, 12 students of Tran Phu Primary School and Nguyen Trai Secondary School in Ia Dom village gather in  the kitchen of the Le Thanh International Border Crossing Station.

The kitchen has been maintained for three years for local disadvantaged students, partly through contributions from the border soldiers’ wages.

Ro Mah Khanh, an eighth grader at Nguyen Trai Secondary School told VOV: “first I was happy when the border guards gave me food. Now I feel at ease and the food is so delicious. The border guards also help me and others do exercises. We have been praised by teachers at school for our performance.”

In addition to helping poor students, the soldiers of Le Thanh International Border Crossing Station have helped local villagers repair their houses, have cleaned up the environment, and have worked with the village patriarchs to ensure local security and social order.

Hand-over of three houses of gratitude between Vietnam and Cambodia. (Photo: qdnd.vn)

The soldiers have built five houses worth a total of 13,200 USD for disadvantaged ethnic families.

Members of the Le Thanh border station have helped Ia Dom become a new rural village.

According to Major Vu Van Hoang who is in charge of local public relations for the station, “we’ve defined a number of key missions including socio-economic development, reinforcement of security and defense, and building the political system at the grassroots level. We’ve also focused on communicating laws and Party and government policies for border areas to increase people’s trust in the Party and State.”

Law enforcement forces along the borderline of Vietnam and Cambodia.

The Le Thanh International Border Crossing Station is in charge of guarding 18 kilometers of the national border in Duc Co and Ia Grai district of Gia Lai province which borders Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province.

Over the years, the station has considered public involvement a vital task. In addition to supporting the local authorities and public, the station’s soldiers have promoted friendship between Gia Lai province’s Mok Den hamlet and Ratanakiri province’s Bo Lon hamlet in Cambodia.

Captain Nguyen Van Quang of the Le Thanh International Border Crossing Station said: “the station’s command has implemented comprehensive measures with top priority to calling on the locals in the defense of national sovereignty and border security. We will continue to coordinate with Ia Dom authorities to develop the local economy and complete all new rural development norms. The most important thing is to work closely with local administration in communications on border marker planting and demarcation, ensuring that the people of the two border areas combine their efforts for a border of peace, friendship, and cooperation.”

Soldiers of the Le Thanh border station have recently financed the construction of three more houses for poor families in Cambodia’s Bo Lon hamlet.