The stable border situation has helped facilitate local socio-economic development and strengthen the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos.
The statement was made at the 21st meeting between the Vietnamese-Lao border delegations in Hanoi on December 24 and 25.
The Vietnamese delegation was led by Deputy Foreign Minister and Head of the Vietnam National Border Committee Ho Xuan Son, and the Lao delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister and Head of the Laos-Vietnam Border Committee Bounkeut Sangsomsak. The two sides agreed that they have coordinated well in the implementation of the Vietnam-Laos agreement on national border regulations, the minutes of the previous meeting and other relevant agreements.
They underlined the need for closer coordination between the two countries’ ministries, branches and localities in settling pending issues regarding border management. The two sides reached consensus on cooperation in cross-border travel management, facilitating border trade development, settling free migration issues and unregistered marriages in the border areas.
They committed to speeding up a project to increase and upgrade border landmarks and create a protocol to recognize the results of border landmark, planting in order to complete the work by 2014.
They agreed to jointly organise activities to mark the 35th anniversary of the signing of the Vietnam-Laos national border demarcation agreement.
