A conference was held in the central province of Nghe An on August 19 to review the results of planting and reinforcing the Vietnam-Laos land border markers. 

 

Addressing the conference, foreign minister Pham Binh Minh highlighted co-ordinated efforts by the Vietnam-Laos Joint Committee on Border Marker Planting, relevant ministries and agencies and people of both nations.  

Minh asked all concerned parties to complete the remaining work by 2014, build and sign legal documents related to the border issue such as a protocol on the Vietnam-Laos borderline and national markers and a new agreement on mechanism for managing the borderline in the new situation.

Especially, both sides should effectively implement the government-level agreement on tackling free immigration and unlicensed marriages of those living along the Vietnam - Laos border, said Minh.

For his part, Lao Deputy Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith emphasized that the completion of reinforcing the land border markers is a common victory of both nations that is of great significance as far as politics, national security and defence and economic development are concerned, contributing to the building of a borderline of peace, friendship, stability and cooperation.

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