A pair of auxiliary border gates, Tan Hung at Tan Hung district ofVietnam’s southern Long An province and Svay A Ngong at Kampong Trabaekdistrict of Cambodia’s Prey Veng province, was inaugurated on July 2.
At the inaugural ceremony, Nguyen Thanh Nguyen, Vice Chairman of theLong An province’s People Committee, said the border gates willcontribute importantly to consolidating and developing the friendshipbetween Vietnam and Cambodia in general and Long An and Prey Veng inparticular.
In the time to come, the two provinces will worktogether to boost economic development at their shared border areas,with a focus on building infrastructure to improve both material andspiritual lives of residents there.
A power line connecting Tan Hung district to Kampong Trabaek will be set up to serve that work.
Long An shares a 132 km border with Cambodia’s Prey Veng and SvayRieng provinces, including a river border crossing of 13 kilometresbetween the districts of Tan Hung and Kampong Trabaek.
With the newly inaugurated, Long An now has one international, one national and three auxiliary border gates.-VNA