Officials pose for a photo at the map hand-over event in Hanoi on November 12 (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - An eventwas held in Hanoi on November 12 to hand over Vietnam-Cambodia bordertopographic maps with a scale of 1:25,000 to ministries, sectors, and centralagencies and to provide training in the use of the maps.
It was held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,which is the standing agency of the State Steering Committee on Land BorderDemarcation and Marker Planting, and the steering committee for borderdemarcation and marker planting at the Ministry of Natural Resources andEnvironment.
Representatives of 22 agencies were presentedwith the maps, accompanied by digital versions, and training on their use in performingborder-related tasks.
The maps are legal and technical documents that fullyreflect the land border demarcation and marker planting results the twocountries have recorded so far, which is about 84 percent of the totalworkload, and also form an inseparable part of the Vietnam-Cambodia protocol onland border demarcation and marker planting, signed on October 5, 2019.
The two countries also signed a treaty onOctober 5 last year that supplements a 1985 treaty on the delimitation ofnational boundaries and the 2005 supplementary treaty.
They were created, printed, and bound under thestrictest technical requirements for map publication, to ensure accuracy andobjectivity. Vietnam and Cambodia contracted the Blom Infor company, laterrenamed NIRAS Mapping A/S, of Denmark, to produce the maps.
Together with the two legal documents signed in2019 and the modern border marker system, the maps are considered a majorachievement by both countries after more than 36 years of negotiations.
The results are attributed to goodwill andconstructive cooperation, close coordination between border experts and legaland technical staff of both sides, and the support of related ministries,sectors, and localities.
The hand-over of maps and training on their use willcontinue to be carried out in the time ahead in Vietnamese provinces borderingCambodia. It is expected to create the best possible conditions for ministries,sectors, and localities to prepare for the implementation of the two legaldocuments inked last year, especially the popularisation of border-relatedtasks, the management and protection of the borderline and border markers, thesafeguarding of border security and social order and safety, and fighting cross-bordercrime.
The two countries’ land border runs between ten Vietnameseprovinces (Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Binh Phuoc, Tay Ninh, Long An,Dong Thap, An Giang, and Kien Giang) and nine Cambodian provinces (Ratanakiri,Mondulkiri, Kratié, Tboung Khmum, Svay Rieng,Prey Veng, Kandal, Takeo, and Kampot)./.
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