Vietnam-Cambodia Land Border Demarcation: 84% Completed within 20 Years

Vietnam and Cambodia complete 84 percent of land border demarcation. Photo: Sai gon Giai phong

The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported at a conference in Kien Giang province on March 4 that the two countries have finished the demarcation of about 1,045 km of the border line and planted 2,047 markers at 1,553 positions.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh took note of progresses in the negotiation of demarcation and marker planting as well as the management and protection of the border on land between Vietnam and Cambodia from 1999, VietnamPlus reported.

He affirmed that such achievements reflect the close attention of the two countries’ leaders as well as their goodwill and efforts to jointly solve the border issue.

The official said the Vietnamese Party and State always attach great importance and give priority to consolidating and developing relations with Cambodia in the spirit of good neighbourliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation, and long-term sustainability.

Progresses in demarcation and marker planting on land will make practical and meaningful contributions to the celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Vietnam-Cambodia diplomatic relations and the success of the Vietnam - Cambodia Friendship Year – 2022, Minh noted.

The conference reviews land border demarcation between Vietnam and Cambodia. Photo: Lao dong (Labour) newspaper

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son said that based on the 1985 Treaty on the Delineation of National Boundary, Vietnam and the neighboring country performed some 200-kilometer long border demarcation and built 72 border markers from 1986 to 1988.

However, by 1989, Cambodia proposed to halt the border demarcation works due to some technical issues and internal political situation, he said, as cited by Sai gon Giai phong (Liberated Saigon) newspaper.

In 2005, the two countries signed the Supplementary Treaty to the 1985 Treaty on the Delimitation of the National Boundary.

From 2006 to September 2019, Vietnam and Cambodia organised hundreds of meetings and multi-level bilateral working sessions, thousands of discussions and bilateral meetings of special working teams on the border demarcation./.

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