Vietnamese, Cambodian PMs chair conference on border demarcation

Vietnamese, Cambodian PMs chair conference reviewing border demarcation

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Techo Hun Sen co-chaired a conference in Hanoi on October 5 to review land border demarcation and marker planting work of the two countries in the 2006 – 2019 period.
Vietnamese, Cambodian PMs chair conference reviewing border demarcation ảnh 1PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and PM Samdech Techo Hun Sen sign Supplementary Treaty to the 1985 Treaty on the Delimitation of National Boundaries and the Supplementary Treaty 2005 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc andhis Cambodian counterpart Samdech Techo Hun Sen co-chaired a conference inHanoi on October 5 to review land border demarcation and marker planting workof the two countries in the 2006 – 2019 period.

Vietnam and Cambodia share about 1,245 km of border line.The two countries have been conducting boundary delimitation and border markerplanting work since early 1986 based on signed agreements. As of December lastyear, they completed about 84 percent of the workload.

At the conference, the two government leaders signed a Supplementary Treaty to the 1985 Treaty on the Delimitationof National Boundaries and the Supplementary Treaty 2005 between Vietnam andCambodia.

They also witnessed the signing of a protocol on land borderdemarcation and marker planting between the two countries.

Speaking at the event, PM Phuc hailed the completion of 84percent of border delimitation work as of December 2018, saying that it is animportant achievement of bilateral cooperation to settle border issues.

He said the two newly-signed documents, along with otherlegal agreements related to border already signed, will create an importantlegal framework for borderline management and development between the twocountries, for the sake of peace, stability, cooperation and sustainabledevelopment.

PM Hun Sen, for his part, said the signing of the twohistoric documents demonstrated a proud step forward of Vietnam-Cambodiacooperation in settling border issues.

“That is the result of the efforts of the Vietnamese PrimeMinister and me, along with the Vietnam-Cambodia joint border committee andadministrations at all levels of the two countries over the past 14 years,since after the signing of the supplementary treaty in 2005,” he said.

The Cambodia PM said Cambodia is paying more attention tothe construction of infrastructure, roads, markets and production facilities inborder areas, thus benefiting residents of both countries and contributing tocooperation and development among Greater Mekong Sub-region countries and ASEANmember states.

He called on the two countries’ authorities and citizens to builda borderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and development.

The two leaders agreed to direct units concerned to continueworking closely in the work.

PM Phuc suggested the two countries cooperate to devise anagreement on border and border gate management regulations to replace theagreement signed in 1983./.
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