Speaking at the event, Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Le Hai Binh said that the conference offered a chance to encourage authorities and people along the shared Vietnam-Cambodia border to work harder to complete the tasks of protecting national security, social safety and order.
He also stressed the need to step up communications, especially in the Khmer language and languages of ethnic minority groups living along the Vietnam-Cambodia border, to call for consensus in preserving, reinforcing and developing bilateral friendship.
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An overview of the conference. |
He also asked ministries, sectors and localities to enhance their awareness of protecting the national sovereignty and territorial integrity in the new situation while detecting and fighting viewpoints, information and acts that take advantage of territorial and ethnic border issues to sabotage the great national unity bloc and the sound traditional friendship between the two nations.
Participants at the conference discussed major issues of the border management work in Kien Giang and the current situation of the Vietnam-Cambodia land border.
Vietnam and Cambodia share a 1,258-km borderline crossing ten border provinces of Vietnam and nine provinces of Cambodia. To date, the two countries have completed the border demarcation of about 1,045 km and built 2,048 border markers at 1,553 locations on the ground, including 315 primary border markers at 264 locations, 1,511 auxiliary markers at 1,068 locations and 221 marker posts.
Vietnam and Cambodia have signed the “Supplementary Treaty to the 1985 Treaty on the Delimitation of National Boundaries and the 2005 Supplementary Treaty”, also known as the 2019 Supplementary Treaty, and the protocol on land border demarcation and marker planting. They have organised the exchange and receipt of border topographic maps.
