Ships coded 8004 of the Vietnam Coast Guard in the patrol (Source: http://www.qdnd.vn)Ships coded 8003 and 8004 of the Vietnam CoastGuard joined Chinese ships coded 3301 and 3304 in the first patrol this year.
The Vietnamese and Chinese sides were led by Colonel Tran Van Tho, Deputy Commander and Chief of the Staff of the CoastGuard High Command Region 1 under the Vietnam Coast Guard, and Liu Tianrong, DeputyHead of the China Coast Guard’s Nanhai bureau.
They examined fishing boats working across ninelocations in the countries’ shared fishing grounds.
Vietnam and China have held annual joint coastguard patrols since 2006, with this patrol the 13th. The activity aims to show that the Agreementon Fishery Cooperation in the Tonkin Gulf signed between the two sides in 2000 is an economicand technical agreement based on respect for sovereignty, sovereignty rightsand jurisdiction of each nation.
The patrols reinforce relations and friendship between the two countries’people.
The patrols also help enhance the efficiency of coordination in implementing anagreement on joint patrols with China, thus preserving and sustainablyexploiting maritime resources in the shared fishing grounds.
In the framework of the patrol, the two coastguard forces met and joined exchange activities to share experience in monitoringfishing boats, search and rescue, protecting the maritime environment, ensuringsafety of navigation, security and fishing.
They also informed violations of their countries’ fishing ships, and disseminatedlegal regulations to fishermen, aiming to promote economic development and safeguardesea and island sovereignty.-VNA
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