VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam and Laos have vowed to speed up border demarcation and landmark planting in an effort to complete border work by 2012.

At the fourth meeting of the Viet Nam-Laos Joint Committee on Border Demarcation and Landmark Planting, which ended in Vientiane yesterday, Nov 24, the two sides said they were satisfied with work on border demarcation co-ordinated between Viet Nam and Laos during 2011.

Some 489 border markers were erected so far along the borderline between the two countries.

At the meeting, the two sides signed a framework document on a protocol on national borders between Viet Nam and Laos and regulations on describing the locations and direction of the Viet Nam-Laos borderline for the construction of the protocol.

The Vietnamese delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son, who doubles as Chairman of the Viet Nam-Laos Joint Committee on Border Demarcation and Landmark Planting, while the Lao delegation was headed by Lao Deputy Foreign Minister Bounkeut Sangsomsak, Chairman of the Laos-Viet Nam Committee on Border Demarcation and Landmark Planting.

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