The Vietnamese and Cambodian Government leaders on June 24 unveiled marker 314, the last one in numerical order on the two countries’ land borderline.

The marker lies on the border between My Duc commune, Ha Tien town, in the southern Vietnamese province of Kien Giang and Russey Srok Khang Lech commune, Kampong Trach district, in the Cambodian province of Kampot.

 

Addressing the ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung stressed that the event marks a joint success of the two nations in building a borderline of peace, friendship and cooperation for development. It satisfies the fundamental interests and desires of both peoples and creates a new dynamic for the two countries to early fulfil all work related to land border demarcation and marker planting.

The inauguration also facilitates economic cooperation, brings stability for people in Kien Giang and Kampot provinces in particular, and contributes to promoting friendship and comprehensive cooperation, especially in economics, trade, investment and tourism between the two countries’ border provinces in general.

Echoing Mr Dung’s view, Prime Minister Hun Sen spoke highly of the event and described recent achievements in border demarcation and marker planting work as a new chapter in the history of the two countries’ relations.

This is the second time the two have attended the inauguration of land border markers.

Vietnam and Cambodia have to date installed 287 border markers and demarcated about 653km of borderline, meeting 76 percent and 51 percent of the total work, respectively.

(VNA/VOV online)