Conference spotlights achievements in Vietnam-Cambodia border affairs
Important achievements that Vietnam and Cambodia have gained together in land border-related affairs were highlighted at a conference held in Phu Quoc city in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on November 22.
Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Le Hai Binh speaks at the conference. (Photo: VNA)
Kien Giang (VNA) – Important achievements thatVietnam and Cambodia have gained together in land border-related affairs werehighlighted at a conference held in Phu Quoc city in the Mekong Delta province ofKien Giang on November 22.
Opening the event, Vice Chairman of the Party CentralCommittee’s Commission for Information and Education Le Hai Binh said that theconference offered a chance to encourage authorities and people along the Vietnam-Cambodiashared border to work harder to complete the tasks of protecting the nationalsecurity and social safety and order.
Binh asked ministries, sectors and localities to enhancetheir awareness of protecting the national sovereignty and territorialintegrity in the new situation, while detecting and fighting viewpoints, information andacts that take advantage of territorial and ethnic border issues to sabotagethe great national unity bloc and the sound traditional friendship between thetwo nations.
He also stressed the need for stepping up communications,especially in Khmer language and languages of ethnic minority groups livingalong the Vietnam-Cambodia border to call for consensus in preserving, reinforcing anddeveloping the bilateral friendship.
Participants at the conference discussed major issues in the border managementwork in Kien Giang as well as the current situation of the Vietnam-Cambodialand border.
Vietnam and Cambodia share a 1,258-km borderline crossing 10border provinces of Vietnam and nine provinces of Cambodia.
To date, the two countries have completed the border demarcation ofabout 1,045 km, built 2,048 border markers at 1,553 locations on the ground,including 315 primary border markers at 264 locations, 1,511 auxiliary markers at1,068 locations and 221 marker posts.
Vietnam and Cambodia have signed the “Supplementary Treaty tothe 1985 Treaty on the Delimitation of National Boundaries and the 2005Supplementary Treaty”, also known as the 2019 Supplementary Treaty, and theprotocol on land border demarcation and marker planting. They have organisedthe exchange and receipt of border topographic maps.
Currently, the two countries still have about 213 km ofborder for which demarcation and marker planting have yet to be completed. They areworking together on this work.
On the occasion, the organising committee presented sevengift packages to needy border guard officers and soldiers based on Phu Quocisland./.
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Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Le Hai Binh speaks at the conference. (Photo: VNA) 
