Laos-Vietnam border cooperation under review
VOV.VN - A retreat of chairmen of the Vietnam-Laos border marker planting joint committee was held in Hanoi on March 1-2.
Participants praised efforts by both countries’ relevant agencies in carrying out a project to reinforce markers along the shared border.
They agreed on a proposal that the two governments should review the project and sign a protocol on the Vietnam-Laos border and markers and an agreement on border and border checkpoint management regulations.
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They also agreed upon 2016 plan and accelerate the implementation of an agreement between the two governments to address free migration and illegal marriage in Vietnam-Laos border areas.
On March 2, head of the Vietnamese sub-committee Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son and his Lao counterpart Saleumxay Kommasith signed addenda to the protocol on Vietnam-Laos borderline and national border markers.