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VN, Laos vow to mark border by 2012

The 4 th round meeting of the Vietnam-Laos Joint Committee for Border Markers Placement took place from Nov. 22-24 in the Lao capital city of Vientiane.
The 4 th round meeting of the Vietnam-Laos Joint Committee for BorderMarkers Placement took place from Nov. 22-24 in the Lao capital city ofVientiane.

Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister HoXuan Son, who is also Head of the National Border Committee and Chairmanof the Vietnam-Laos Joint Committee for Border Markers Planting, andBounkeut Sangsomsack, Lao Deputy Foreign Minister, Head of the LaoBorder Committee and Chairman of the Laos-Vietnam Joint Committee forBorder Markers Placement attended the meeting.

Atthe meeting, the two sides reviewed the planting of border markers inrecent years and discussed measures to complete the marker system alongthe Vietnam-Laos borderline by 2012.

The two sides’representatives highly valued cooperative results between the twocountries in 2011. This year, joint working teams have placed 489markers and located the sites for 662 others.

Onthe occasion, the two sides signed a Framework Protocol on the sharedborder line and national bordermarkers between the two countries and aRegulation on describing the location, direction of the national borderbetween Vietnam and Laos to serve the compilation of a Protocol on theVietnam-Laos border line and national markers./.
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