The Vietnamese and Cambodian Government leaders on June 24 chaired a
ceremony inaugurating marker 314, the last one in numerical order on the
two countries’ land borderline.
The marker lies on the border
between My Duc commune, Ha Tien town in the southern Vietnamese
province of Kien Giang and Russey Srok Khang Lech commune, Kampong
Trach district in the Cambodian province of Kampot .
This is
the second time Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Cambodian
counterpart, Hun Sen, have attended the inauguration of land border
markers. These showed the resolve and efforts by both governments in
implementing treaties, agreements and deals on border and territorial
work, helping the two sides complete all work on border demarcation and
marker planting soon.
The event also drew the participation of
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh and Cambodian Deputy Prime
Ministers Men Sam On and Sar Kheng along with senior officials of
ministries, agencies and localities of both countries.
Addressing
the ceremony, Prime Minister Dung stressed the special significance of
the inauguration of marker 314. He said the event marks a joint success
of the two nations in building a borderline of peace, friendship and
cooperation for development. It satisfies fundamental interest and
desire of both peoples as well as creates a new dynamic for the two
countries to early fulfil all work on land border demarcation and marker
planting.
The inauguration also facilitates the exchange and
economic cooperation as well as creates stability for people in Kien
Giang and Kampot provinces in particular and contributes to promoting
friendship and comprehensive cooperation, especially in economics,
trade, investment and tourism between the two countries’ border
provinces in general.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said the
inauguration of marker 314 is an event of significance. He added that it
satisfies both nations’ desires in building a borderline of peace,
stability, cooperation and development as well as contributes to
promoting cooperation among countries in the Mekong sub-region and in
Southeast Asia .
He described recent achievements in border
demarcation and marker planting work as a new chapter in the history of
the two countries’ relations.
Vietnam and Cambodia have to date
installed 287 border markers and demarcated about 653km of borderline,
meeting 76 percent and 51 percent of the total work, respectively.-VNA