Kien Giang (VNA) – The managementof the Vietnam-Cambodia border in 2019 was reviewed at a conference in theMekong Delta province of Kien Giang on May 29.
Speaking at the event, deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission forInformation and Education Bui Truong Giang, a member of the National SteeringCommittee on border-marker planting, highlighted the importance of the work, aswell as national border protection for socio-economic development.
Agencies of Vietnam and Cambodia have completed 84 percent of the workload in border demarcation and are workingto sign two documents to record the entire workload achieved in 2019.
Those implementing border management, especially cadres, soldiers andpeople living in border areas, play a vital role in protecting the nationalborder and border markers, he said.
He underlined the need to raise public awareness of the importance of borderprotection and management.
Mai Anh Nhin, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, head of the SteeringCommittee for border-marker planting of Kien Giang, saidlocal authorities have directed departments and agencies to launch bordercommunication campaigns, aiming to enhance State management on national borderand territory.
At the conference, reporters from the Party CentralCommittee’s Commission for External Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Border Guard High Command gavepresentations on the Vietnam-Cambodia relations; key issues in the border demarcationwork; border management and protection; and ideas to promote border traderoutes between Vietnam and Cambodia.-VNA