At the fifth Vietnam-Cambodia Defence Policy Dialogue at the deputy ministerial level. Photo: VNA

The fifth Vietnam-Cambodia Defence Policy Dialogue at the deputy ministerial level was held at the Hoa Lu International Border Gate's border station in the southern province of Binh Phuoc on May 14, VietnamPlus reported.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and Secretary of State at the Cambodian Defence Ministry Neang Phat co-chaired the event.

Both sides shared their view on the significance of the dialogue, which is a key activity in the "Vietnam - Cambodia, Cambodia - Vietnam Friendship Year 2022 and took place right before the first Vietnam-Cambodia Border Defence Friendship Exchange.

They also looked into issues affecting the stability and peace of both Vietnam and Cambodia, as well as in the region and the world, including traditional and non-traditional security challenges, and the complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Delegates to the dialogue pose for a group photo. Photo: qdnd.vn

They reviewed the outcomes of bilateral defence cooperation, and agreed on cooperation orientations in the future.

The countries have coordinated well to maintain high-level meetings in flexible forms, and continued effective collaboration in education and communications on the traditional friendship between the two countries and armies.

The border management and protection work was implemented actively, while the search for and repatriation of remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and experts who died in wartime in Cambodia made progress.

Regarding cooperation orientations in the coming time, the two sides reached a consensus on coordinating to effectively implement the plan to organize activities in the Vietnam - Cambodia, Cambodia - Vietnam Friendship Year 2022, and effectively maintaining the current bilateral defence cooperation mechanisms, especially the Defence Policy Dialogue at the deputy ministerial level.

They will also coordinate in preventing diseases; and in multilateral mechanisms and forums.

84 percent of inland border demarcated in 20 years

Border marker 313 along the Vietnam-Cambodia borderline. Photo: VNA

Vietnam and Cambodia have completed the demarcation and marker planting of 84% of their shared border line over the two decades between 1999 and 2019, according to a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as cited by Nhan dan newspaper.

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.

Such achievements reflect the two leaders’ close attention and the nations’ goodwill and efforts to jointly solve their border issue, Deputy Prime Minister said at a meeting to review the work.

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.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son also highlighted the importance of the “Supplementary Treaty to the 1985 Treaty on the Delimitation of National Boundaries and the 2005 Supplementary Treaty” between the two countries, which took effect on December 22 in 2020./.

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