Major General Nguyễn Hoài Phương, deputy commander of the Border Guard, speak about the management and protection of the national border. — VNA/VNS Photo

KIÊN GIANG — Important achievements that Việt Nam and Cambodia have gained together in land border-related affairs were highlighted at a conference held in Phú Quốc City in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang on Wednesday.

Opening the event, Deputy Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Lê Hải Bình said the conference offered a chance to encourage authorities and people along the Việt Nam-Cambodia shared border to work harder to complete the tasks of protecting the national security and social safety and order.

Bình asked ministries, sectors and localities to enhance their awareness of protecting the national sovereignty and territorial integrity in the new situation, while detecting and fighting viewpoints, information and acts that take advantage of territorial and ethnic border issues to sabotage the great national unity bloc and the sound traditional friendship between the two nations.

He also stressed the need for stepping up communications, especially in Khmer language and languages of ethnic minority groups living along the Việt Nam-Cambodia border to call for consensus in preserving, reinforcing and developing the bilateral friendship.

Participants at the conference discussed major issues in the border management work in Kiên Giang as well as the current situation of the Việt Nam-Cambodia land border.

Việt Nam and Cambodia share a 1,258km borderline crossing 10 border provinces of Việt Nam and nine provinces of Cambodia.

To date, the two countries have completed the border demarcation of about 1,045km, built 2,048 border markers at 1,553 locations on the ground, including 315 primary border markers at 264 locations, 1,511 auxiliary markers at 1,068 locations and 221 marker posts.

Việt Nam and Cambodia have signed the “Supplementary Treaty to the 1985 Treaty on the Delimitation of National Boundaries and the 2005 Supplementary Treaty”, also known as the 2019 Supplementary Treaty, and the protocol on land border demarcation and marker planting. They have organised the exchange and receipt of border topographic maps.

Currently, the two countries still have about 213km of border for which demarcation and marker planting have yet to be completed. They are working together on this work.

On the occasion, the organising committee presented seven gift packages to needy border guard officers and soldiers based on Phú Quốc Island. — VNS